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Causha Lee; Jan North; male dancer Kawika; Kenny Kerr; Shelley Michaels; African American female impersonator Emoré DuBois [real name: Emory Hodges] at the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall & Saloon Gaiety Theater: contact print, approximately 1981 to 1982
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Kenny Kerr Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05
Archival Component
Causha Lee; Jan North; male dancer Kawika; Kenny Kerr; Shelley Michaels; African American female impersonator Emoré DuBois [real name: Emory Hodges] at the Silver Slipper Gambling Hall & Saloon Gaiety Theater: contact print, approximately 1981 to 1982
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Kenny Kerr Papers
Box/Folder: Box 05
Archival Component
Transcript of an Interview with Marcia Washington by Claytee D. White, February 14 and March 14, 2013
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Archival Collection
Description
Marcia moved to Las vegas in 1966 as a young teen; became first African American on the State Board of Education (2000-2008)
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Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud conducted by Patricia Holland on April 21, 2015 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Bailey-Tureaud discusses her career in radio broadcasting and her personal magazine, Las Vegas Black Image, which is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. She describes organizing a concert with a former radio station run by the Economic Opportunity Board, which featured African American musical talent, and working in conjunction with local African American radio station KCEP to promote Las Vegas Black Image, a publication which focuses on the African American community in Las Vegas. Bailey-Tureaud also discusses the lack of African American media in the Las Vegas area, how she sees Las Vegas and African American media in the city progressing in the future, and how she feels political and business interests suppress African American media in some circumstances.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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Transcript of Interview with Debbie Conway by Claytee D. White, March 13, 2013
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Archival Collection
Description
Interview of Debbie Conway by Claytee D. White, March 13, 2013. Conway is the first African American to hold office of Recorder in Clark County and in the state of Nevada. She speaks about her previous civilian jobs and working with small businesses and granting agencies.
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Audio recording clip of interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee D. White, August 31, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee White on August 31, 2013. McCurdy talks about one of his mentors, Herman Moody, the first African American police officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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Gwendolyn Walker oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gwendolyn Walker conducted by Claytee D. White on July 15, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Walker discusses her mother founding S.W.A.P. (Students With a Purpose) and the Swapettes, the first precision drill team in Las Vegas, Nevada. Walker also talks about collecting African American memorabilia and founding the Walker African American Museum, and some notable family members.
Archival Collection
Correspondence from inmates at Nevada State Prison to Flora Dungan, 1968
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Archival Collection
Description
Letters to Flora Dungan describe incidents and treatment of African American prisoners at the Nevada State Prison and the conduct of the warden.
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Sherrill and Samuel Coleman oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Sherril and Samuel Coleman conducted by Claytee White on February 12 and 22, 2016 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In these interviews, Sherrill and Samuel Coleman discuss experiencing violence against African Americans in Durant, Mississippi, and discuss moving to Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1990s. The Colemans later describe their contributions with the African American community and recall the poor working conditions for African Americans in Las Vegas and throughout the United States. The two then discuss social class, American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO), and their involvement with religious organizations.
Archival Collection