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Claytee D. White oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03904

Abstract

Oral history interview with Claytee D. White conducted by Stefani Evans on November 2, 2023 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Claytee D. White, founding directory of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the OHRC by contributing her oral history to the collection.

She begins by explaining how the system of sharecropping worked in her family near rural Ahoskie, North Carolina, and she talks about the field work involved in raising cotton, tobacco, corn, and peanuts. The fifth of eight children and the first daughter, she shares memories of going into town with her mother, of admiring her women teachers, and of attending North Carolina Central College (now University) for two years before moving to Washington, D.C., and working for the telephone company.

After recalling her two years in D.C. and 22 years in Los Angeles, California, she describes "running away" to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1990s. Here, at the History department at UNLV, she recalls learning to conduct oral histories. White shares memories of her first interviews with Hazel and Jimmy Gay and Lucille Bryant. She talks of matriculating to the College of William and Mary for her PhD and of returning to Bertie County to live with her mother and administer the office of The Shaw University Center for Alternative Programs in Education (CAPE). She describes how she was offered the position of OHRC founding director, why it matters that she was an "opportunity hire," and how it feels to be the only Black person in a room.

Archival Collection

Meeting with governor Bob Miller, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1993 (folder 1 of 1), image 22

Date

1993

Description

Arrangement note: Series II. Public Events

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Collection of various union activities, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 1 of 2), image 22

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

Image

Collection of various union activities, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1990s (folder 2 of 2), image 22

Date

1990 to 1999

Description

Arrangement note: Series III. Internal: Work

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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, January 22, 2001

Date

2001-01-22

Description

Includes meeting minutes and agenda, along with additional information about bylaws. CSUN Session 31 (Part 1) Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Dr. Carolyn Reedom oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01544

Abstract

Oral history interview with Dr. Carolyn Reedom conducted by Kristina Knebl on November 22, 2006 for the Public School Principalship Oral History Project. In this interview, Dr. Reedom reflects upon her 28 years as a principal in Nevada’s Clark County School District (CCSD). She discusses the process by which she became an elementary school principal, and compares it with when she served as a high school principal. She discusses her approach to school administration, and how her experience as a 27-year old principal of Red Rock Elementary School shaped her career. She also describes her experience with school desegregation, and explains why she believes it was desegregation instead of integration.

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