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Edwina Danzinger oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00330

Abstract

Oral history interview with Edwina Danzinger conducted by Leanne Terry on February 26, 1980 and February 29, 1980 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Danzinger first talks about her family’s early upbringing in Nevada, her involvement in Boy Scouts and her various positions of employment at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Danzinger also discusses the changes in the crime rate, air pollution, and the changes made to the university by the Buckley Amendment.

Archival Collection

Photographic slide of people at Danberg Ranch, Nevada, August 3, 1962

Date

1962-08-03

Description

A group of unidentified people working at the Dangberg Ranch Site in Douglas County, Nevada. Written on the slide: "Dangberg Site, Douglas County, Nevada."

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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

Interview with Benjamin Clinton Diven, April 12, 2005

Date

2005-04-12

Description

Narrator affiliation: Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Manhattan Project

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Interview with Delbert Sylvester Barth, December 3, 2004

Date

2004-12-03

Description

Narrator affiliation: Rear Admiral (ret.); U.S. Public Health Service; Director, EPA Environmental Research Center

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Corbin Harney personal photographs, speaking engagements, and activism: photograph album

Date

1995 to 1997

Description

From the Corbin Harney Nevada Test Site Protest Photograph Albums (MS-00308).

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Corbin Harney spiritual, environmental, and protest activism activities: photograph album

Date

1996 to 1997

Description

From the Corbin Harney Nevada Test Site Protest Photograph Albums (MS-00308).

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