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Max Goot oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00701

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Oral history interview with Max Goot conducted by Charles Collins on March 22, 1976 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Goot recalls the growth of Las Vegas, Nevada after 1945. He also talks about winning the Man of the Year Award from his temple.

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Claytee D. White oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03904

Abstract

Oral history interview with Claytee D. White conducted by Stefani Evans on November 2, 2023 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Claytee D. White, founding directory of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the OHRC by contributing her oral history to the collection.

She begins by explaining how the system of sharecropping worked in her family near rural Ahoskie, North Carolina, and she talks about the field work involved in raising cotton, tobacco, corn, and peanuts. The fifth of eight children and the first daughter, she shares memories of going into town with her mother, of admiring her women teachers, and of attending North Carolina Central College (now University) for two years before moving to Washington, D.C., and working for the telephone company.

After recalling her two years in D.C. and 22 years in Los Angeles, California, she describes "running away" to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1990s. Here, at the History department at UNLV, she recalls learning to conduct oral histories. White shares memories of her first interviews with Hazel and Jimmy Gay and Lucille Bryant. She talks of matriculating to the College of William and Mary for her PhD and of returning to Bertie County to live with her mother and administer the office of The Shaw University Center for Alternative Programs in Education (CAPE). She describes how she was offered the position of OHRC founding director, why it matters that she was an "opportunity hire," and how it feels to be the only Black person in a room.

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Las Vegas Gay Bowling League, 1985

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File

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Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00251
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 03

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Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth Group booth at Gay Pride: photographic print, 1997

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Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 037

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Las Vegas Gay and Lesbian Chorus performing at Gay Pride, image 002: photographic print, 1998

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Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 038

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Las Vegas Gay and Lesbian Chorus performing at Gay Pride, image 003: photographic print, 1998

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Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00263
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 038

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Publications: Fabulous Gay Vegas Magazine, 2016

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File

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Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 27

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Publications: Las Vegas (gay) history, 2017

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File

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Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 31

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Gay Days and Nights [Las Vegas], 2007

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Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 35

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Gay Days and Nights [Las Vegas], 2008

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File

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Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00802
Collection Name: Dennis McBride Collection on LGBTQ Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 35

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