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Lost City restorations with Lake Mead in the distance.
Transcribed Notes: Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Lost City Restorations with rising Lake Mead in distance. (1938)"
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In this recorded KNPR documentary, Mississippi of the West or Promised Land, the narrator discusses a racially-segregated Las Vegas, Nevada, maltreatment of black performers prior to 1947, Jim Crow laws during World War II, refusal of hotel owners to abolish the color line, desegreation of most hotels in 1960, modern remnants of historically black neighborhoods, police department—black community tensions in these neighborhoods, and furthering of race relations in Las Vegas.
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