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Transcript of interview with Johnny Griffin by Claytee D. White, September 13, 2010

Date

2010-09-13

Description

Interview transcript with Johnny Griffin by Claytee D. White, September 13, 2010. Griffin grew up in Mississippi where he held a job as a golf caddy. He earned a golf scholarship to Jackson State University, and moved to Las Vegas in 1982. He became involved in Municipal Golf Course and the Tiger Woods Foundation.

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Transcript of interview with Ricki Y. Barlow by Claytee D. White, April 10, 2013

Date

2013-04-10

Description

Transcript of interview with Ricki Y. Barlow by Claytee D. White, April 10, 2013. Barlow is a native of Las Vegas, attended Vo-Tech High School and served as student body president. He is a graduate of UNLV, and in 2007 was elected as Las Vegas City Councilman for Ward 5.

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Transcript of interview with Trish Geran by Claytee D. White, April 14, 2015

Date

2015-04-14

Description

Trish Geran is too busy to pigeonhole herself into one role. The activist, author, daughter, engineer, filmmaker, public speaker, and student was born and raised in Las Vegas’s Westside community as the fifth and youngest child of Hazel and Johnus Geran. She and her sister attended Catholic elementary school and Bishop Gorman High School, and her brothers went to Madison Elementary School, Roy W. Martin Junior High School, and Las Vegas High School. In this interview Trish discusses the feelings of not belonging that shaped her world view: she was different from her white, wealthy schoolmates, and as a private school student she was different from her neighbors. She found balance through excelling in sports, drill team, and academics. After graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and cashing in an IRA to work on Barak Obama’s presidential campaign, Trish found out from her mother that the City of Las Vegas was going to close F Street, main link between the Westside

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Audio clip from interview with Jocelyn Oats conducted by John Grygo and Claytee D. White, November 20, 2012

Date

2012-11-30

Description

Audio clip from interview with Jocelyn Oats on November 20, 2012. In the clip, Jocelyn talks about the beginnings of Nevada Partners, and her work with the teenaged youth of Las Vegas in the 1990s.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Debbie Conway by Claytee White, March 13, 2013

Date

2013-03-13

Description

Part of an interview with Debbie Conway conducted by Claytee White, March 13, 2013. Conway reflects on strides made locally during the past two decades and gives credit to others in the community for their leadership,

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Audio recording clip of interview with Estralita Williams by Leon B. Green, February 13, 2013

Date

2013-02-13

Description

Part of an interview with Estralita Williams by Leon Green on February 13, 2012. Williams discusses a sit-in by black students to participate in school events and how she accidentally became the sit-in's spokesperson.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee D. White, February 21, 2007

Date

2007-02-21

Description

Part of an interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee White on February 21, 2007. Toland discusses her husband, civil rights activist Jim Anderson, and the people who worked in the Las Vegas NAACP.

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Audio clip of Interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo, October 12, 2012

Date

2012-10-12

Description

Part of an interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo on October 12, 2012. Regan discusses racism in high school sports after integration, then Regan's first job as a stock clerk at Vegas Village.

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local histories

Histories that are distinctly localized in subject matter or source materials, focusing on specific neighborhoods, communities, counties, or other specific subdivisions of larger geopolitical bodies.

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Transcript of interview with Shirley Edmond by Claytee D. White, June 24, 2010

Date

2010-06-24

Description

Interview with Shirley Edmond conducted by Claytee D. White on June 24, 2010. Born in Las Vegas, Edmond was the first African American woman in Southern Nevada promoted by the United States Post Office to be a supervisor. Edmond describes growing up in the Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas as the daughter of a local preacher. She shares memories of community stores, neighborhood landmarks, and her work at the Post Office and Matt Kelly Elementary School. Edmond's husband, Mackie, also contributes to the interview.

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