In this recorded KNPR documentary, Mississippi of the West or Promised Land, the narrator discusses a racially-segregated Las Vegas, Nevada, maltreatment of black performers prior to 1947, Jim Crow laws during World War II, refusal of hotel owners to abolish the color line, desegreation of most hotels in 1960, modern remnants of historically black neighborhoods, police department—black community tensions in these neighborhoods, and furthering of race relations in Las Vegas.
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Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings
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Collection Number: OH-03930 Collection Name: Arnold Shaw Interviews and Performance Recordings Box/Folder: Digital File 00
The Mountain West's Yucca Mountain Socioeconomic Project Records (1987-1994) contain reports on the effects to indigenous peoples, flora and fauna, and transportation relating to the deposits of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Mountain West studied were Nye, Lincoln, Esmeralda, and Clark counties. Also included are analysis and impact assessments, and an oral history of Ed Slavin, a Tonopah, Nevada resident.