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African American women in art
Here are entered works dealing with African American women as represented in art. Works on the attainments of African American women as artists are entered under [African American women artists.]
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Frances Farnsworth oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Frances Farnsworth conducted by an unknown collector on May 27, 1982 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Farnsworth discusses her role as a founding member of the Mesquite Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. Farnsworth also discusses how members would go out to the community and recruit women to join the club.
Archival Collection
Photograph of people standing at a sign for the Boulder Dam Pier that has rattlesnakes hanging from it, Boulder City, Nevada, April 18, 1931
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Archival Collection
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Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories
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The Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories contains audio interviews and brief transcripts that focus on welfare, family, and women's issues in Nevada from 1970 to 1974. Gregory interviewed Nevada residents including Maya Miller, Ruby Duncan, and Mary Wesley, who described their lives during the anti-poverty and women's rights campaigns in the early 1970s. The collection documents views on welfare; the Equal Rights Amendment; race, discrimination, and civil rights; and political campaigns.
Archival Collection