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Video clip of interview with Robert Elmer Friedrichs, February 25, 2005

Date

2005-02-25

Description

Part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (MS-00818)

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Video clip of interview with Gay (Gertrud Anne Yoder) Kauffman, October 11, 2006

Date

2006-10-11

Description

Part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (MS-00818)

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Video clip of interview with Oscar Foger, Wallace Morgan, and JD Davis

Description

Part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (MS-00818)

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Video clip of interview with Delbert Sylvester Barth, March 18, 2005

Date

2005-03-18

Description

Part of the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project (MS-00818)

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Reverend Fouston Jordon Sr. oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02212

Abstract

Oral history interview with Reverend Fouston Jordan Sr. conducted by Rachel Mack on November 24, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Jordan discusses his early life in Louisiana and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1960. He talks about the lack of skilled jobs for minorities and his experience working at the Nevada Test Site. Jordan then describes the protests and strikes held by Culinary Workers Union members in response to casinos not employing certain minority groups. Later, Jordan discusses the significance that churches had on the African American community and their role to help push for certain civil rights.

Archival Collection

Yolanda Rayford oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02440

Abstract

Oral history interview with Yolanda Rayford conducted by Claytee D. White on August 11, 2015 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Rayford discusses her personal history and what it was like to have a parent in the armed services during her youth. She talks about living in Tokyo, Japan while her father was stationed there and describes life on the military base. Rayford recalls moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1969 and describes the riots that were happening in West Las Vegas at the time. She goes on to talk about the entertainment on Jackson Street and discusses how Jackson Street was the downtown for the Westside community. Lastly, Rayford talks of her employment at the Nevada Test Site doing clerical work and the future of the African American community in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Photographic slide of people at Tule Springs, Nevada, October 2, 1962

Date

1962-10-02

Description

John Mawby, Dick Shutter, Jr., Walt Stein, J.D. Clark, and Roger Morrison after the discovery of the first flake with charcoal. Site #1 (Flake Site) at Tule Springs.

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