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Audio recording clip from Interview with Barbara Kirkland
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Barbara Kirkland by Claytee White on November 12, 2004. Kirkland discusses the growth of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority since 1960 and the different projects and scholarships they have worked on throughout the years.
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Consent Decree
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Description
Consent decree alleged a series of violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Plaintiffs who signed agreed to adhere to hire blacks for a 12% of all jobs.
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Audio recording clip of interview with Estralita Williams by Leon B. Green, February 13, 2013
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Estralita Williams by Leon Green on February 13, 2012. Williams discusses a sit-in by black students to participate in school events and how she accidentally became the sit-in's spokesperson.
Sound
Audio recording clip of Interview with Eddie & Johnie Wright
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Eddie Wright, Jr. by Leon Green in the fall of 2012. Wright talks about his different jobs and the part his race played in getting jobs in the workforce.
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Photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright at their wedding reception, April 25, 1957
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright cutting the cake at their wedding reception.
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Photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright, 1991.
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Eddie and Johnie Wright.
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Audio recording clip of interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee D. White, February 21, 2007
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee White on February 21, 2007. Toland discusses her husband, civil rights activist Jim Anderson, and the people who worked in the Las Vegas NAACP.
Sound
Audio clip of Interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo, October 12, 2012
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo on October 12, 2012. Regan discusses racism in high school sports after integration, then Regan's first job as a stock clerk at Vegas Village.
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Photograph of J. T. (John Thomas) McWilliams, Las Vegas, circa 1930s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Mr. J. T. (John Thomas) McWilliams in front of home on Westside Las Vegas.
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