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Rice, Brenda; Yoon, Sangil - Portraits: digital photographs

Date

2011-05-21

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Educational Outreach

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Miller, Jennell; Kelly, Bridget; Sutton, Caitlin - Portraits: digital photographs

Date

2011-05-21

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Educational Outreach

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Paluga, Renee and Martin (Donors) with Scholarship Recipients: digital photographs

Date

2011-05-14

Description

Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Client: Educational Outreach

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Pat Feaster oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03306

Abstract

Oral history interview with Pat Feaster conducted by Claytee D. White on July 1, 1996 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Feaster relates how her mother made the decision to leave Fordyce, Arkansas for better economic opportunity and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942. She describes travelling across the country, living in a one-room structure in the Westside of Las Vegas, and attending the Westside School. She discusses her mother's employment at the Red Rooster Restaurant and then at the Algiers Hotel. She talks at length about her own educational journey after leaving school at fifteen, then returning for her GED and later, a college degree after the birth of her fifth child. She discusses how the decision to improve her education helped her develop a twenty-six year career at the Clark County Health District. She also discusses the Fordyce Club and many important personalities in Las Vegas' Black community.

Archival Collection

Gloria Hewitt oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02719

Abstract

Oral history interview with Gloria Hewitt conducted by Claytee D. White on June 21, 2016 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Hewitt discusses her early life in Cleveland, Ohio. She recalls attending Talladega College in Alabama, her teaching experience in Chicago, Illinois, and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1991. Hewitt talks about her interests in politics, organizing an event to register people to vote, and being a founding member of the Southern Nevada Coalition of Concerned Women (SNCCW). Lastly, Hewitt discusses the importance of education and parental involvement in schools.

Archival Collection

Testimony by Shelley Bristol for National Association for People with AIDS, February 1994

Date

1994-02

Archival Collection

Description

Transcript of testimony given by Shelley Bristol in which she discusses her lifestyle as a legal prostitute, her relationships, and being tested regularly for HIV.

Text

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Academic Council Records

Identifier

UA-00088

Abstract

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Academic Council Records (1957-1984) document the meetings of UNLV's Academic Council, formerly known as the Academic Committee. Materials include four volumes of Academic Committee meeting minutes and nine volumes of Academic Council meeting minutes, agendas, correspondence, and announcements dealing with course schedules, tenure and promotions, budgets, and other administrative topics.

Archival Collection