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Negative: L-R: Renee Diamond, Jack Anderson, Ruby Duncan, Marty Makower. Marty Makower worked for the National Economic Development and Law Center in Berkeley, California and assisted Operation Life officials in grant writing, 1980s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033
Archival Component
Negative: Tammy Bass (wearing black jacket) at Operation Life Christmas party. She was a HUD counselor who worked for Operation Life. Ruby Duncan (seated, wearing white) and Renee Diamond (standing, holding cup), 1980s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033
Archival Component
"Maya Miller: A-roll and B-roll" includes Maya Miller with Ruby Duncan, Duncan and others outside store, American Legion, and Miller talking with other people, 16mm film, approximately 1965 to 1974
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories
Box/Folder: Box 04
Archival Component
Negative: (L-R): Aldine Weems; Marty Makower, National Economic Development and Law Center, Berkeley, California; Renee Diamond; unidentified federal employee; Ruby Duncan, executive director of Operation Life. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Box SH-033
Archival Component
Left to right (L-R): Aldine Weems; Marty Makower, National Economic Development and Law Center, Berkeley, California; Renee Diamond; unidentified federal employee; Ruby Duncan, executive director of Operation Life. HUD regional office, San Francisco, 1980s
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Photograph Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
#69335: UNLV's Boyd School of Law presents the Public Interest Law Film Festival and honors local civil rights pioneer Ruby Duncan during an awards ceremony September 20, 2013 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2013 September 20
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
Archival Component
Personal, approximately 1980 to 1989
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
This series is comprised of material from 1980 to 1991 pertaining directly to Ruby Duncan. It includes a Bannerman Award application from 1989, miscellaneous correspondence, including a letter from B.B. King, files relating to Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition and the National Organization for Women (NOW). There is also a file that contains speeches delivered by Ruby Duncan and material relating to the "White House Conference on American Families," which Duncan served on in 1980.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Subseries 1.7. Resources
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
Included are Ruby Duncan's materials from organizations such as the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County and federal entities such as Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Subseries 1.1. Office Administration
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
General administrative files for Operation Life, including vendor files, appointment diaries, invoices, board minutes, correspondence, press releases and samples of stationary and business forms that Operation Life used under the direction of Ruby Duncan.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Administrative Files, 1972-1991
Level of Description
Scope and Contents
This series contains Ruby Duncan's general administrative files for Operation Life from 1972 to 1991. Included are public and private funding information and miscellaneous resource materials. The materials are organized into seven sub-series.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component