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Audio clips from interview with Lori Chenin-Frankl, June 7, 2016
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Archival Collection
Description
In these clips Lori Chenin Frankl discusses the role of Judaism in her childhood and growing up Jewish in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the second clip she discusses different synagogues in Las Vegas and the difference between Conservative and Orthodox.
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Audio clips from interview with Maurice "Maury" Halfon Behar, March 14, 2016
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Archival Collection
Description
In clip 1, Maury Behar discusses how he survived the Holocaust. In clip 2, he discusses how he came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Audio clips from interview with Priscilla Schwartz, June 16, 2016
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Archival Collection
Description
In clip 1, Pricilla Schwartz describes her Jewish education as a child. In clip 2, she discusses her work with Compassionate Care.
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Clinton Wright Photographs
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Abstract
The Clinton Wright Photographs (1964-2018) contains black-and-white photographic negatives of various sizes, dating from 1964 to 1971. The images document the Black experience in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 1960s and 1970s, and capture scenes of everyday life in the historic Black neighborhood known as the Westside, social events such as weddings and parties, and events hosted by local churches. The collection also contains a photograph of Clinton Wright from 2017 when he visited the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives, and a memorial program for his wife, Joyce Wright, who passed away in 2018.
Archival Collection
Collateral materials for the Copa series "The Sands and the Copa Room" commemorative scrapbook I quotations, scholar's articles, and interviews, 2013-2014
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Scope and Contents
Includes quotations from Ken Hanlon, Jimmy Mulidore, Arno Marsh, Joe Lano, Junior League of Las Vegas Sustainers. Also included are taped interviews given to UNLV Oral History Department and articles for booklet.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Junior League of Las Vegas' Records on the Morelli House Preservation Project
Box/Folder: Box 07
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Woodrow Wilson by Gwendolyn Goodloe, February 28, 1975
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Archival Collection
Description
Interview with Woodrow Wilson conducted by Gwendolyn Goodloe on February 28, 1975. Wilson worked at the Basic Magnesium plant and became the first black elected to the Nevada Assembly in 1966. He served as president of the NAACP in 1951, and was a co-founder of Westside Federal Credit Union.
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Transcript of roundtable interview with members of Midbar Kodesh, April 19, 2015
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Archival Collection
Description
In this interview, members of Midbar Kodesh discuss how they each became involved in the synagogue, and how the congregation formed in the mid-1990s. Some of the narrators grew up in Las Vegas and talk about the growth of the town and being former members of Temple Beth Sholom.
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Mary Ann Michel interview notes, retirement party notice, obituary, 2005-2006, 2013
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: History of Nursing in Southern Nevada Oral History Project Records
Box/Folder: Box 01 (Restrictions apply)
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