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Audio recording clip of interview with Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, June 5, 1997
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Archival Collection
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.
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Transcript of interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, November 28, 2004
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Archival Collection
Description
Interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy conducted by Claytee D. White on November 28, 2004. Duncan moved to Las Vegas in 1977, worked with Nevada Motion Picture Services, and owned a travel agency. She started a black heritage tour of Las Vegas.
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Audio recording clip of interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, November 28, 2004
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy (not featured in clip) by Claytee White, November 28, 2004. Duncan describes how she started a black heritage tour of Las Vegas.
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72 Years in Las Vegas by Sarann Knight Preddy manuscript, 2014
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Women of Diversity Productions, Inc. Records
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Set of negatives by Clinton Wright including party for Troutman, African students, Variety Club, Dr. John Crear and guest, Sarann Knight, Pabst advertisement at Sugar Hill, Youth Group at Second Baptist, and Kit Carson Splash, 1966
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Archival Collection
Description
Photographer's notations: Party for Troutman, Aug. 66, African students, Variety Club, Dr. John Crear & guest, Sarann Knight, Pabst ad at Sugar Hill, Youth Group at Second Baptist, Kit Carson Splash.
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Party for Troutman; African students; Variety Club; Dr. John Crear and guest; Sarann Knight; Pabst advertisement at Sugar Hill; Youth Group at Second Baptist; Kit Carson Splash: photographic negative, 1966
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Clinton Wright Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
Preddy, Sarann Knight
Sarann Preddy was born July 27, 1920 in Eufaula, Oklahoma. Sarann Knight Preddy moved to Hawthorne, Nevada, in the 1940s, becoming a business owner and president of the NAACP. Later she moved to Las Vegas, where she served as a community activist and worked as one of the first black 21-dealers. Preddy bought the Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada and worked to preserve the building and its history. She passed away on December 22, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Person
Newspaper clipping, GOP Blacks Anti-Knight, Las Vegas Sun, January 23, 1979
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Newspaper article titled "GOP Blacks Anti-Knight," by Bob Palm in Las Vegas Sun, Tuesday, January 23, 1979. Palm reports opposition from a member of the Clark County Republican Central Committee to Sarann Knight's bid to unseat Las Vegas City Commissioner Roy Woofter.
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Newspaper clipping, NAACP Bachelor of the Year Fund Raising Affair, publication unknown, April 29, 1976
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Description
Newspaper clipping with photograph featuring Toni Miller from Western Airlines buying an advertisement from NAACP representatives Saran Knight, Eleanor Walker and Lubertha Johnson.
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Newspaper clipping, Photograph with Verlia Davis presenting oral histories, The Advertiser, February 21, 1979
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Description
Newspaper clipping with photograph featuring Verlia Davis, Sarann Knight, Lubertha Johnson and Arlone Scott receiving oral histories taken in the 1970s for "The Black Experience in Southern Nevada."
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