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Pasadena, California - Yale, H. C., 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 29
Archival Component
Richard Kirman, 1935-1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 11
Archival Component
Workers and the Lockheed 14, 1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 05
Archival Component
Payroll - general, 1904-1938
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Union Pacific Railroad Collection
Box/Folder: Box 68
Archival Component
Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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