William H. "Bob" Bailey was born in 1927 and came to Las Vegas in 1955. First employed as an assistant producer and master of ceremonies in the first interracial hotel in Nevada, the Moulin Rouge, he describes the impact that hotel had on black entertainers during its brief existence. Bailey says the hotel brought life to the Westside where, in 1955, there were only a few telephones and the streets were largely unpaved.

Alpha Kappa Alpha, Incorporated (AKA), is one of the oldest Black sororities in the United States, and was founded on January 15, 1908 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. AKA is an international service organization that comprises nearly 300,000 members in over 1,000 graduate and undergraduate chapters worldwide.