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Transcript of interview with Mustafa Richards by Claytee D. White, March 10, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Mustafa Richards by Claytee D. White on March 10, 2013. Richards arrived in Las Vegas in 1976 and worked for 25 years at the Imperial Palace, where at one time he was the only black bellman. He is the imam at the Masjid as-Sabur in Las Vegas.
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Alphabetical subject files, 1955-1997
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The alphabetical subject files (1955-1997) contains newspaper clippings articles, business information, conference materials, and community organizational materials related to the Las Vegas, Nevada Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community. Subjects include HIV, LGBTQ businesses, censorship, conferences, education, entertainment, human rights, publications, religion, rodeo, and social events.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
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Temple Sinai roundtable oral history interview
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Oral history interview with the Temple Sinai roundtable conducted by Barbara Tabach on April 26, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, five congregation members of Temple Sinai in Las Vegas, Nevada talk about its formation in 2007 as a result of the merge between two struggling synagogues, Adat Ari El and Temple Beth Am. They discuss the struggles each synagogue had leading up to the merge and Temple Sinai's current Jewish community. Foremost, the members explain the personal connections they each have with Temple Sinai as well as the warm atmosphere they strive to uphold for all of the congregation.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Elinor Horden by Valerie Fujii, February 13, 1930
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Archival Collection
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On February 13th, 1980, collector Valerie Fujii interviewed dancer, Elinor Horden, (born May 21st, 1930 in Ohio) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. This interview covers local entertainment in the 1950s and the social and environmental changes that have occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Transcript of roundtable interview with members of Midbar Kodesh, April 19, 2015
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Archival Collection
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In this interview, members of Midbar Kodesh discuss how they each became involved in the synagogue, and how the congregation formed in the mid-1990s. Some of the narrators grew up in Las Vegas and talk about the growth of the town and being former members of Temple Beth Sholom.
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Reverend John Bain: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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