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Dunes Hotel Photograph Collection
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The Dunes Hotel Photographs (1950-1993) consist of administrative, publicity and entertainment images documenting the history of the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to materials focusing on day-to-day activities at the hotel (correspondence, contracts, personnel, budgets, etc.) the collection provides insight into the hotel’s entertainment and public relations activities. Although there are chronological gaps in the collection, particularly during the later years of the Dunes (1970s-1990s), it provides a significant amount of historical documentation on the famed Strip hotel that was long known to tourists and residents alike as the “the Miracle in the Desert.”
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Dunes Hotel and Casino Records
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The Dunes Hotel and Casino Records are comprised of administrative, publicity, and entertainment materials documenting the history of the Dunes Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from the years 1954 to 1992. Included are correspondence, contracts, photographs, hotel budgets, and an early aerial photograph of the property. The material provides a significant amount of historical documentation of the hotel that was long known to tourists and residents as the "the Miracle in the Desert."
Archival Collection
Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal "Meet A Friendly Machine-Gun Crew!" poster, 1953-1959
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Archival Collection
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Meet A Friendly Machine-Gun Crew! poster from the Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal asking for contributions to aid Jewish refugees. The text across the the front reads: "MEET A FRIENDLY MACHINE-GUN CREW! "America will lose the entire near East -- except for Israel! As long as ISRAEL is HELPED BY AMERICAN JEWRY, Israel can survive as our ONE FRIENDLY OUTPOST in the Near East!" - a statement made by General "Lightening Joe" Collins, former Chief of Staff, United States Army, at the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C., on July 1. 1958. TODAY IS AN EMERGENCY!! 80,000 persecuted Jewish refugees from Poland and Moslem lands must be helped to get to Israel - and quickly! Your contribution to the UNITED JEWISH APPEAL will help the emergency SPECIAL RESCUE FUND of $100,000,000 - and will help build up the newborn state of Israel - to remain strong - well-armed -- fiercely proud of its freedom - ready and able to remain YOUR ONE FRIENDLY OUTPOST IN A HOSTILE PART OF THE WORLD! -wouldn't you feel a little more secure with a friendly outpost guarding your freedom in the Near East? Las Vegas United Jewish Appeal Post Office Box 1981 Las Vegas, Nevada. Carl Cohen, chairman/Co-chairmen: Moe Dalitz and Jacob Kozloff/Nevada State Chairman: Edward Levinson"
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Steve Jones and Bart Jones interview, Novermber 7, 2016: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Brothers Steve and Bart Jones live and breathe Las Vegas history. Their grandparents, Burley and Arlie Jones, arrived in Las Vegas in the nineteen-teens; their father, Herb Jones; his sister, Florence Lee Jones Cahlan, and their uncle, Cliff Jones, helped form the legal, journalistic, and water policy framework that sustains Southern Nevada today. The Jones brothers build on that foundation through their custom home-building company, Merlin Construction. In this interview, they talk about living and growing up in Las Vegas, of attending John S. Park Elementary School, of hunting in the desert, of their family's commitment to cultural and racial diversity, and of accompanying their grandfather to his business at the Ranch Market in the Westside. They share their early work experiences lifeguarding and later, dealing, at local casinos as well as second-hand memories of the Kefauver trials through the tales told by their father and uncle. Steve describes mentor Audie Coker; he explains
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Ron Current interview, March 16, 2012: transcript
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Archival Collection
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Ron Current's heart was always in the right place, with respect to social activism and his dedication to empowering the black community in Las Vegas. Inspired by Black Panther Party founders, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Ron started the Black Panther Party Las Vegas Chapter. He was also the director of public relations for the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression; an organization created to work in tandem with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, to eliminate racial inequality. Ron describes the overall atmosphere of the Westside community in Las Vegas during the early days, as chaotic, drug infested, and riddled with daily gang related shootings. He also recalls the historic preservation attempts made by leading members of the Westside community, such as Sarann Knight Preddy. Ron recalls working at the University Medical Center while recruiting for the Black Panther Party Las Vegas Chapter. This interview demonstrates the power of love. As the founder and leader of the Black Panther Party Las Vegas Chapter, Ron was named one of the most influential blacks in Las Vegas by the Sentinel Voice. He recalls utilizing his hands-on leadership approach towards capacity building and the successful implementation of community mobilization strategies and methods. He was a champion for educational equity, equal access to employment opportunities, and economic equality in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Transcript of interview with Vincent Kethen by Claytee White, December 23, 2009
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In 1964, the year that Vincent Kethen was born, desegregation of Las Vegas schools began. Like many African-American children living in the Las Vegas Westside neighborhood, Vincent was bused out of his neighborhood in third grade to attend a white school. In his case, this meant attending John S. Park Elementary and later other predominantly white schools. He talks about these experiences. John S. Park was a neighborhood of manicured lawns, while the school bus and the classroom were places fraught with fisticuffs. The experience of growing up during that era are recalled. Vincent provides a sense of that it was like to reside in his home neighborhood and the onslaught of the drug culture altered gang-lead neighborhoods. Being bused had positive results he explains, such as athletics, which served as an equalizer. For Vincent, a solid upbringing, which included love of church and the chance to attend college, encouraged him to make good decisions about his future. He received a four-year degree and he returned to Las Vegas to "give back." For over a decade and a half, her has coached young basketball players and helped them see their options for a brighter future than they might otherwise have seen.
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Interview with Ernest Benjamin Williams, March 26, 2004
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Ernest Benjamin Williams, October 27, 2004
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"Please Don't Print This (It Might Upset Someone)": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
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Archival Collection
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From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On the death of Charles Bush in Las Vegas.
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