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Geraldine Kirk-Hughes oral history interview
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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 Sen. Claude D. Pepper, Washington, November 08, 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes after arriving in Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 14, 1938
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and an unidentified man, circa 1944
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and Sen. Claude D. Pepper, Washington, November 08, 1947
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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Hercules, Long Beach, California, October 13, 1946
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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.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Various Hughes Electronics/Hughes Aircraft Company organizational charts, 1984 to 1995
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Collection Name: Hughes Aircraft Retirees Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 02
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Howard Hughes, Albert Lodwick, and an unidentified man at Floyd Bennett Field after record flight from Miami to New York, 1936 April 21
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
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Howard Hughes and Earl Martyn inside of the HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat, 1947
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 11
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