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Audio recording clip of interview with Anna Bailey by Claytee D. White, March 3, 1997

Date

1997-03-03

Description

Part of an interview with Anna Bailey by Claytee White on March 3, 1997. Bailey describes her arrival in Las Vegas and opening night at the Moulin Rouge.

Sound

Audio recording clips of interview with Hazel Gay by Claytee D. White, December 2, 1995

Date

1995-12-02

Archival Collection

Description

Three audio clips from an interview with Hazel Gay conducted by Claytee D. White on December 2, 1995. Hazel and her husband Jimmy Gay moved to Las Vegas in 1946, becoming leaders in the African American community during the civil rights era. In the clips, Gay recalls the Moulin Rouge from her perspective as manager of the dress shop.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Jerry Eppenger by Claytee D. White, September 14, 2011

Date

2011-09-14

Description

Part of an interview with Jerry Eppenger by Claytee D. White on September 14, 2011. Eppenger describes his arrest for a curfew violation while leaving work following a riot on the Westside in 1969.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Rachel Coleman by Claytee D. White, July 24, 1996

Date

1996-07-24

Description

Part of an interview with Rachel Coleman conducted by Claytee D. White on July 24, 1996. In the clip, Coleman describes her work as a business agent addressing workplace grievances and relates her experience with a fist fight that went into arbitration.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Mary Louise Williams by Claytee D. White, June 19, 1998

Date

1998-06-19

Description

Part of an interview with Mary Louise Williams conducted by Claytee D. White on June 19, 1998. Williams recalls working as a showgirl at the Moulin Rouge and traces her subsequent careers as a social worker and school teacher.

Sound

Audio recording clip from interview with Sonny Thomas by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013

Date

2013-02-28

Description

Part of an inverview with Sonny Thomas conducted by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013. Thomas describes job options when he arrived in Las Vegas in 1959.

Sound

Audio clips from interview with Blaine Benedict, November 12, 2015

Date

2015-11-12

Description

In these clips, Blaine Benedict dicusses how his family came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada; his father's career in Las Vegas casinos; and working in the casinos as a youth.

Sound

Clinton Wright oral history interview: audio clip

Date

2005-10-13

Description

Clinton Wright discusses the riots in the predominantly Black Westside neighborhood in Las Vegas in 1992 after the Rodney King verdict. Wright describes how the riots lasted three to four days, and he thought they were instigated by people who came from California and Los Angeles. He said that the shopping center in the Westside burned, there were firebombs, and white drivers were attacked and beaten up while the police did little to control it. Wright was known as a photographer and a newspaper offered him $50 per hour to take pictures of the riots. After some consideration, her turned this offer down because he believed it would be dangerous for him with a camera.

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Jimmy Gay oral history interview: audio clip

Date

1972-04-12

Description

Jimmy Gay discusses racism in Las Vegas before and after World War II. He says that prior to WWII, there wasn't a lot of prejudice, and there were only a few African American families. After WWII, he says that the influx of soldiers returning and the migration of Black families from the South led to Las Vegas becoming the "Mississippi of the West."

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Audio recording clip of interview with Zenna Mae and Eugene Bridges by Mary Palevsky, November 19, 2004

Date

2004-11-19

Description

Narrator affiliation: Downwinder (Salt Lake City, Utah)

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