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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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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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#69823: UNLV Women's Volleyball team new members pose for banners July 30, 2014 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2014 July 30
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Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Photograph of Howard Hughes at hearing, Washington, August 06, 1947
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Leon Hughes, son of John R. Hughes, on the Pahrump Ranch, 1938
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Collection Name: Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 14
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Resorts International Hotel and Casino's indoor swimming pool in Atlantic City, New Jersey: postcard
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Bally's Park Place, Convention Hall, and other casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey: postcard
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Kenneth Hughes, brother of Pahrump resident Leon Hughes, atop a calf at the Pahrump Ranch: photographic print
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series IV. Pahrump, Nevada -- Subseries IV.A. Hughes Family. Barn in the background is said to have been constructed prior to 1900 from timber sawed in Saw Mill Canyon in the Spring Mountains. It contained a number of stalls and mangers in which stagecoach horses were quartered. The barn was torn down when Walt Williams moved to the Pahrump Ranch, and a shop was constructed on the site.
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