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Parent and Excellence in Education Hall of Hall Award Ceremony, 1999
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Marzette Lewis Papers
Box/Folder: Box 16 (Restrictions apply)
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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Archival Collection
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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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Photograph of Toni and Wilbur Clark, Edward G. Robinson and an unidentified man, Park Sheraton Hotel, New York, New York, circa 1950s
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Archival Collection
Description
Left to right: Toni Clark, Desert Inn owner Wilbur Clark, actor Edward G. Robinson, and an unidentified man at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.
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Hughes Aviation
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 09, 1947
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Archival Collection
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