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Meeting minutes for Consolidated Student Senate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, December 6, 1983

Date

1983-12-06

Description

Includes meeting agenda and minutes. CSUN Session 14 Meeting Minutes and Agendas.

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Diane Meireis oral history interview: transcript

Date

2017-11-06

Description

Oral history interview with Diane Meireis conducted by Claytee D. White on November 06, 2017 for the Remembering 1 October Oral History Project. In this interview, Meireis discusses her experience at the 1 October shooting. She remembers hearing gunfire, the confusion in the crowd, and finding a safe place to hide. Meireis describes the collaboration of strangers, and feeling guilt for not being able to help others as she escaped the venue. Lastly, Meireis discusses her opinions of firearms.

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"Some comments on the question of a law school for Nevada" by Leonard E. Goodall

Date

1980 (year approximate)

Description

Folder contains a paper titled "Some Comments on the Question of A Law School for Nevada" by Leonard E. Goodall, President, University of Nevada, Las Vegas for the use of the consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget, and the Law School Advisory Committee, Judge William Beko, Chairman, and the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada System, Robert Cashell, Chairman. From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Records (UA-00048).

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Alber A. Mora oral history interview: transcript

Date

2018-12-07

Description

Oral history interview with Alber A. Mora conducted by Rodrigo Vazquez and Laurents Bañuelos-Benitez on December 7, 2018 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Alber Mora talks about his life growing up in Cuba with his family and the circumstances of their departure from the country; his brother faced pressures to join the military, which led the Mora family to immigrate to the United States by way of a fishing boat in 1994. Alber discusses the family's lives in Houston, Texas and how he met and married his wife, Rosemary, before the couple moved to Los Angeles and Alber began working at Porto's Bakery, a famous Cuban eatery in L.A. Alber shares how he and his wife eventually moved to Las Vegas, where he works for Caesar's Palace and for the Culinary Workers Union as a Shop Steward.

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Transcript of interview with Bess Rosenberg by Jerry Masini, November 12, 1975

Date

1975-11-12

Description

Interview with Bess Rosenberg by Jerry Masini on November 12, 1975. In this interview, Rosenberg describes coming to Las Vegas in 1942, and the desert landscape. She gives an in-depth recollection of the first atomic test, and talks about different weather and the seasons in Las Vegas. Rosenberg describes several clubs and hotels around downtown and the recreation at Lake Mead and Mount Charleston.

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Transcript of interview with Ernest Jackson Jr. by Larry E. Cooper, March 1, 1980

Date

1980-03-01

Description

On March 1, 1980, Larry E. Cooper interviewed general contractor Ernest (Ernie) Jackson Junior (born December 6th, 1932 in Bruce, Mississippi) in Cooper’s home about his experiences in the Westside as a Black Las Vegas resident. Jackson Jr. discusses the lack of property buyers on the Westside and his goals of improving the Westside by building on the land. Jackson Jr. also discusses his youth as a baseball star for Las Vegas High School in the fifties.

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