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Dizzy Gillespie recording, 1970 April 28
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Gillespie talks about jazz music culture, his early career, racism and marketing in early pop music, as well as the integration and segregation of some popular acts of the time.
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Mickey Gilley recording, 1987 October 18
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Interview starts with a recorded rendition of "Stagger Lee". Gilley discusses his childhood, his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, opening the club "Gilley's" in 1971, his first successful record in 1974, "Urban Cowboy", performing in Las Vegas, techniques of recording and performing, and his band and back-up singers.
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Ortiz family member picking cotton in a field either in Pahrump, Nevada or Arizona: photograph, 1964
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Maria Luisa Nieto and Mary Ann Nieto (twins) stand holding dolls outside a building where others are gathered around the door in Moapa Valley, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1969
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Maria Esther Ortiz, ready to being kindergarten, stands outside the family home in Logandale, Nevada: photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
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Garza and Reyes children hold Easter baskets outside an Ozaki migrant dwelling on their way to the traditional Ozaki Easter Egg Hunt in Logandale, Nevada. Unidentified individual, Frederico Reyes, Lupe Garza (identified left to right): photograph, 1960
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Ramon Nieto and Jesusa Nieto Pena stand outside the family home in Rio Grande Valley, Texas (identified left to right): photograph, 1964 September
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Daniel Nieto and Luis Nieto Jr. sit outside among plants outside the family home in Rio Grande Valley, Texas (identified left to right): photograph, 1950
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Ortiz and Nieto families gathered around a Christmas tree with piles of wrapped gifts inside their home, Logandale, Nevada. 2nd row: Luis Nieto Jr., Aurelio Ortiz, unidentified individual, Ernesto Ortiz, Cenovio Ortiz; 1st row: Paulita Ortiz, Rosa Nieto Gonzalez, Juanita Ortiz Marcial (identified left to right): photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
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Frederico Reyes, Lupe Garza Sanchez, Maria Garza (infant) stand outside their home in Overton, Nevada (identified from left to right): photograph, approximately 1960 to 1965
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