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Geraldine Kirk-Hughes oral history interview
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Abstract
Oral history interview with Geraldine Kirk-Hughes conducted by Larry Sampson on November 28, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview Kirk-Hughes relates her birth and upbringing in Simmersport, Louisiana, becoming a teen mother, earning a GED and earning her first college degree before marrying and moving to Greece and Dubai. She then explains how she returned to the United States to earn her masters degree before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978. She discusses her second marriage, her decision to attend law school, and her decision to go into private practice instead of working for a law firm. She talks about cases she worked on, people in the community she knew, and the effects of discrimination on her work and career. She ends by talking about her third marriage and sharing thoughts on how the Las Vegas African American community has lost some of the cohesiveness and unity of earlier decades.
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and an unidentified man, circa 1944
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Hughes XF-11 in flight, April 4, 1947
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Balloon Buster (The): The Incredible Life and Adventures of Frank Luke of Arizona, America's Second Ace by Norman S. Hall; manuscript; Howard Hughes' personal copy with signature inside, 1928
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 410 (Restrictions apply)
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Architectural drawing of residential home in Boulder City, Nevada, preliminary elevation, 1962
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Archival Collection
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Preliminary drawing of front exterior elevation of ra anch-style residential home in Boulder City, Nevada. Handwritten near lower right: "Elevations only for Plan 1 (1B, 1C, 1D), Plan 2 (2B, 2C, 2D), Plan 4 (4B, 4C, 4D), Plan 5 (5B, 5C, 5D)."
Architecture Period: Mid-Century ModernistImage
Photograph of a street scene near dance halls, Goldfield (Nev.), 1900-1920
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Archival Collection
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Site Name: Jake's Dance Hall (Goldfield, Nev.)
Pioneer Dance Hall (Goldfield, Nev.)
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Hughes XF-11 photographs, 1946-1947
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Materials contain photographs of the Hughes XF-11 prototype military reconnaissance aircraft. Howard Hughes piloted the two XF-11 prototypes built: in July 1946, Hughes crashed the first XF-11 in Beverly Hills, California; in April 1947, Hughes successfully flew the second prototype at high speeds and at high altitudes. However, the United States Air Force abandoned the controversial project, and in August of 1947, Hughes was called to testify before the Truman Committee in the U.S. Senate about the failures of the program.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Photograph of Howard Hughes and an unidentified man, circa 1937
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of the construction of Howard Hughes' Hercules, circa 1946
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Archival Collection
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