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Wiener, Valerie
Valerie Wiener is a former Democratic Nevada State Senator who represented Clark County District 3 from 1996 to 2012. Born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1948, she is the daughter of prominent local attorney Louis Wiener, Jr. After Valerie Wiener graduated from Las Vegas High School, she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's in contemporary literature from the University of Illinois before attending the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific.
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Santana, John: correspondence, 2002
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Personal Papers
Box/Folder: Box 11 (Restrictions apply)
Archival Component
Lola Falana recordings, 1978 to 1984
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Scope and Contents
Falana discusses her upcoming album, recent performances, early career, body image, childhood poverty, relatability, and standing up for her principles; Falana answers questions from callers; Falana chats about life changes, and personal feelings; Falana discusses her childhood, her personality, and her views on growing older; Falana discusses religion, reincarnation, past life regressions, abortion, and homosexuality; Falana talks about how music for listening is coming back, romance, politics, common sense, and bowling with Rip Taylor and Sammy Davis Jr.
Falana talks about how she handles stress and answers call-in questions about her health issues, fear of cancer, dieting, and fasting; Falana talks about why she was blacklisted from the Johnny Carson Show for supporting Wayne Newton, how she was almost sold into prostitiution, and politics.
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Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
Box/Folder: Digital File 00
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Duncan, Ruby, 1932-
Ruby Duncan was born in Tallulah, Louisiana on June 7, 1932. Her parents passed away when Duncan was three years old and she spent the remainder of her youth living with various relatives in and around Tallulah. Duncan started work at the Ivory Plantation at an early age, only going to school part-time. She quit school to work full-time as a waitress and later a barmaid. Duncan left Tallulah for Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952 to live with her aunt near Henderson, Nevada.
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Cunningham, Don
Don Cunningham, Jazz musician and Las Vegas resident was born in 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri. As a child he was heavily influenced by blues and jazz musicians such as BB King, Count Basie, and Ella Fitzgerald. Growing up in St. Louis Cunningham worked shining shoes and cleaning steps going to white neighborhoods working inside taverns. He received saxophone lessons from a family friend and joined the band attending a segregated high school.
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Sanchez, Tony F., III, 1966-
Tony F. Sanchez III was born in the Las Vegas’ Women’s Hospital. It was 1966 and the plot of land the hospital sat on near Eastern and Sahara streets was considered rural. It was on the desert of the east Las Vegas that young Tony would grow up, graduate from Valley High School, and then graduate from University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Dave and Marcia Washington and their children: photograph
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Archival Collection
Description
Color photograph of Marcia and Dave Washington (seated) and their children (standing, left to right): Amber, Ray, Angel and April. Framed certificates and plaques are on the wall behind the group.
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Dave Washington with Mayor Oscar Goodman: photograph
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman and Las Vegas Fire Chief David L. Washington, standing next to a Las Vegas Fire Department truck, prior to the start of a parade. Mayor Goodman wears a sash designating him as the Grand Marshall. Handwritten on back in pen, "Mayor Oscar Goodman + David L. Washington, Fire Chief, prior to the start of many parades they attended together."
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Photograph of (left to right) April, Carrie, Josh, Johnie, Eddie, and Jeff Wright, 1991
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of grandparents Eddie and Johnie Wright with their son, Jeff, and his three children, 1991.
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Photograph of guests at Eddie and Johnie Wright's wedding reception, April 25, 1957
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of guests at the wedding reception for Eddie and Johnie Wright, April 25, 1957.
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