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Film transparency of the Last Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas, circa 1945

Date

1945

Archival Collection

Description

Picture of the Little Church of the West at the Last Frontier Hotel and Casino.

Image

Zion Methodist Church (Las Vegas, Nev.)

911 North G St., Las Vegas, Nev.

Corporate Body

Asalee Harris oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03781

Abstract

Oral history interview with Asalee Harris conducted by Claytee D. White on May 17, 2021 for African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Asalee Harris was born in Fortune Fork, outside of Tallulah, Louisiana. Born into a family of cotton sharecroppers, farm life was arduous; eventually she and her family moved to Tallulah where she met and married her husband, James. Asalee and James moved to Las Vegas in 1954 where James' brother lived. She details her work as a maid and member of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, local businesses she remembers on Jackson Street including Wesley's Barber Shop, Johnson's Grocery Store, Elite Market, the Westside Credit Union, and her church work at New Jerusalem Church. Subjects discussed include: sharecropping, Tallulah, Louisiana, Westside Credit Union, and New Jerusalem Church.

Archival Collection

New Jerusalem Church (Las Vegas, Nev.)

North D St. & Jefferson Ave., Las Vegas, Nev.

Corporate Body