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Audio recording clip of interview with Alma Whitney by Claytee D. White, March 3, 1996

Date

1996-03-03

Description

Alma talks about the 2-3 day long car ride from Tallulah, LA to Las Vegas in 1952.

Sound

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

Date

1995-12-02

Archival Collection

Description

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.

Sound

Audio recording clip from Interview with Barbara Kirkland

Date

2004-11-12

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.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Estralita Williams by Leon B. Green, February 13, 2013

Date

2013-02-13

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

2012-10-06
2012-10-13
2012-11-16
2012-11-28

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.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee D. White, February 21, 2007

Date

2007-02-21

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

2012-10-12

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.

Sound

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.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, June 5, 1997

Date

1997-06-05

Description

Part of an interview with Sarann Knight Preddy conducted by Claytee D. White on June 5, 1997. Preddy recalls her pleasant residence in Hawthorne, the opening of the Moulin Rouge, and meeting entertainers as a keno dealer.

Sound

Audio recording clip of interview with Faye Todd by Claytee D. White, October 15, 1996

Date

1996-10-15

Archival Collection

Description

Part of an interview with Faye Todd by Claytee White on October 15, 1996. Todd discusses how she came to work for the Landmark and what it was like to work with entertainers.

Sound