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Audio recording clip of interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee D. White, August 31, 2013

Date

2013-08-31

Description

Part of an interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee White on August 31, 2013. McCurdy talks about one of his mentors, Herman Moody, the first African American police officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Debbie Conway by Claytee White, March 13, 2013

Date

2013-03-13

Description

Part of an interview with Debbie Conway conducted by Claytee White, March 13, 2013. Conway reflects on strides made locally during the past two decades and gives credit to others in the community for their leadership,

Sound

Audio recording clip from an Interview with Eva G. Simmons by Claytee D. White, February 4, 2013

Date

2013-02-04

Description

Part of an interview with Eva Simmons by Claytee D. White on February 4, 2013. Simmons talks about the formation of Les Femmes Douze, a scholarship-granting organization, that she helped found.

Sound

Westside Improvement Committee Petitions of 1940

Date

1940

Description

This collection consists of petitions signed by citizens of the Westside of Las Vegas from 1 February 1940 to 4 December 1940 that were filed with the Clerk, City of Las Vegas. These petitions focus on the need for improvements on the Westside and request zoning restrictions for residential and business purposes.

Text

Letter from Donald Clark, president of the Las Vegas Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to Clarence Horton, Esq., president of the State Bar Association, January 11, 1962

Date

1962-01-11

Archival Collection

Description

In this letter to Clarence Horton, the president of the Nevada Bar Association, Rev. Donald Clark requests information regarding the delayed admission of Charles L. Kellar, an African American lawyer, to the State Bar Association, January 11, 1962.

Text

Photograph of the exterior of the Cove Hotel, original headquarters for Operation Life

Date

unspecified year in 198X

Description

Exterior view of the former Cove Hotel, which became the headquarters for Operation Life.

Image

Photograph of the rear of the new Operation Life Building, 600 West Owens, Las Vegas, Nevada, late 1980s

Date

unspecified year in 198X

Description

Exterior view of the rear of the Operation Life building at 600 West Owens Avenue.

Image

Photograph of Aldine Weems, administrator of Operation Life, 1970s

Date

unspecified year in 198X

Description

Close-up photograph of Aldine Weems.

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Photograph of Aldine Weems, May 1978

Date

1978-05

Description

Bust-length portrait photograph of Aldine Weems, administrator at Operation Life.

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Series of fourteen photographs of Ruby Duncan and other Operation Life members at the Housing and Urban Development regional office in San Francisco, California, 1980s

Date

1980-19-85

Description

Series of photographs taken at the San Francisco offices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development when Ruby Duncan and others from Operation Life visited, c. 1983.

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