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Photograph of Marcia and Dave Washington at the Moulin Rouge, November 1988
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Marica and Dave Washington at an NAACP banquet at the Moulin Rouge in November 1988.
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Photograph of Marcia Washington and her children at Dave Washington's firefighter graduation, 1974
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of Marcia Washington and her children at Dave Washington's firefighter graduation in 1974.
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Photograph of Debbie Conway and Polly Gonzalez at the Nevada Minority Purchasing and Contracts Ceremony Banquet, circa 1998
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway and Polly Gonzalez at the Nevada Minority Purchasing and Contracts Awards Ceremony Banquet.
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Photograph of Debbie Conway (right) with Maxine Waters and Tanya Flanagan at a Community Forum, circa 1998
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway (right) with Maxine Waters and Tanya Flanagan at a Community Forum held at Seven Seas Restaurant.
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Photograph of Debbie Conway assisting and coordinating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Statue Dedication Ceremony, circa 1998
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway assisting and coordinating the Martin Luther King Statue Dedication Ceremony.
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Photograph of Debbie Conway hosting the radio show "Economic Empowerment into the 21st Century," circa 1998
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway (right) hosting the KCEP Power 88.1 radio talk show "Economic Empowerment into the 21st Century."
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Photograph of Debbie Conway with Courtney Hill, Systems Administrator, circa 2012
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Debbie Conway with Courtney Hill, IT Systems Administrator, pictured with the Marriage Certificate Kiosk that Debbie helped to implement, which allows constituents to purchase copies of their marriage certificates without standing in line.
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Las Vegas African American Community Conversations, Part 1: Migration, Work, and Community Emergence: video
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Archival Collection
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The Las Vegas African American Community Conversations is a four part, one hour round table conversation with local Las Vegans. They share their powerful stories and great history, with topics ranging from “Migration, Civil Rights, Education, Church, Entertainment and the Early Legal Community”. Part One: A conversation about “Early Migration, Work and Community Emergence”. MODERATOR- Trish Geran ( Author/Community Activist) PANELISTS- Lucille Bryant (Community Activist) Jackie Brantley (Former Director-Office of Governor Kenny Guinn) Hannah Brown (Urban Chamber of Commerce) David L. Washington (1st Black Chief of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Department) Brenda J. Williams (President-Westside School Alumni Foundation)
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Transcript of interview with Milton I. Schwartz by Claytee White, May 4, 2004
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Archival Collection
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In this interview, Milton Schwartz discusses his life in Las Vegas and his business investments. He worked at the Flamingo Hotel right after World War II, and he started Valley Hospital as an investor in 1970. Schwartz has a Hebrew academy named after him in Israel, and owned the Yellow-Checker-Star Cab Company. He was active in the Republican Party.
Milton I. Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl Harbor (age 20) and did a five year stint in the Pacific as a repeater specialist. After the war he returned to his job as a refrigeration mechanic in Brooklyn and was soon offered a job out in Las Vegas at the Flamingo Hotel, which was owned by Bugsy Siegel. After three months in Las Vegas, during which time he had several conversations over dinner with Beldon Cattleman, Milton returned to New York to work with his father in the fixture business. After ten years he sold that business and bought into Design Equipment Construction, which brought him back to Las Vegas. Milton started or bought many businesses over the years, but the one he's proudest of is Valley Hospital. He and his partners brought the first medical helicopters into Nevada and he feels that many lives were saved because of that. He also invested in Yellow-Checker-Star Cab Company, which he still owns. Two on-going concerns that are important to Milton are his involvement with the Republican Party and the Milton I. Schwartz Hebrew Academy in Israel. Of the many awards and plaques he has earned over the decades, he is proudest of the birthday acknowledgements from the Academy. He believes strongly that the most important achievements of his life revolve around his religion and the children being educated in it. Milton shares many stories, facts, descriptions, and anecdotes about Las Vegas in the decades since 1946. He built a house in the Scotch 80's, contributes to UNLV, and approves of city growth and the proposed changes in the downtown area. He has contributed much to the growth and stability of the Las Vegas valley.
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