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Audio clip of Marzette Lewis

Date

2012-10-30

Description

Part of an interview with Marzette Lewis by Claytee White on October 30, 2012. Lewis discusses community involvement in the movement for equality in elementary schools to stop bussing children to schools in different neighborhoods.

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Audio recording clip of an interview with Gertrude Toston

Date

2006-07-21

Description

Part of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee White on July 21, 2006. Toston discusses going to work for Western Airlines, at first as a customer service agent in 1967, and then as a flight attendant, while going to school.

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Audio clip from interview with Jean S. Childs, December 2, 2013

Date

2013-12-02

Description

Part of an interview with Jean S. Childs, December 2, 2013. In this clip, Jean Childs describes an experience she had helping someone at the Concentrated Employment Program.

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Audio clip from interview with Beverly Mason, December 21, 2012

Date

2012-12-21

Description

Part of an interview with Beverly Mason, December 21, 2012. In this audio clip, Mason discusses the importance of church in her upbringing and in the African American community.

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Audio clip from interview with Eva Whaley, May 13, 2013

Date

2013-05-13

Description

Part of an interview with Eva Whaley, May 13, 2013. In this audio clip, Whaley speaks about renting an apartment in a Westside community and purchasing a home through a real estate agent.

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Audio clip from interview with Samuel Smith, June 17, 2011

Date

2011-06-22

Description

Part of an interview with Samuel Smith, June 22, 2011. In this clip, Smith speaks about his run-in with Las Vegas police when he moved to the area, and the relationship between police officers and the black community.

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Audio clip from interview with Lovey M. McCurdy, March 19, 1981

Date

1981-03-19

Description

Part of an interview with Lovey McCurdy, March 19, 1981. In this audio clip, McCurdy recalls the 1969 Westside riot.

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Audio clip from interview with Helen Anderson and Karen Walker, February 21, 2014

Date

2014-02-21

Description

Part of an interview with Helen Anderson and Karen Walker, February 21, 2014. In this audio clip, Anderson and Walker (mother and daughter) discuss how their family came to own Hamburger Heaven, and the food they served, including desserts.

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Audio clip from interview with Katherine M. Joseph, October 25, 2004

Date

2004-10-25

Description

Part of an interview with Katherine Joseph, October 25, 2004. In this clip, Joseph describes her dancing career, including a stint in Cuba, and her interactions with Josephine Baker and Pearl Bailey at the Cotton Club in Las Vegas in the 1950s.

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Audio clip from interview with Rejoyce Williams, June 12, 1996

Date

1996-06-12

Description

Part of an interview with Rejoyce Williams, June 12, 1996. In this clip, Williams talks about working as a hotel maid and avoiding trouble when she was accused of stealing.

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