Alice Doolittle was born on October 7, 1897 in Boston, Massachussetts. She was an actress, a dental assistant, and a housewife. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1921.

Robert Foster was born June 25, 1921 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was the principal of Helen J. Stewart School and helped develop the special education program in Clark County, Nevada.

Jacqueline Evans, née Dwyer, was born on December 8, 1940 in Long Beach, California. She moved Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955. She was a student and a housewife.

Lovell Gaines was born in Louisiana and went to Louisiana State University. He moved to Reno, Nevada after serving in the Vietnam war. Gaines taught for one year and then worked for the Nevada Department of Corrections for thirty-plus years. He was extensively involved in the Reno chapter of the National Association for the Adancedment of Colored People (NAACP). Then when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975, he ran for and became the local NAACP chapter president. He served as president from 1980 to 1982.

Kathleen Bryan was born on June 25, 1949 in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a student at the University of Nevada, Reno and was a teacher.

Judge Lee Gates was born in Louisiana in the 1940s, but moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1960 with his father. His mother had moved there earlier, gotten a job, and established a home in the historical Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas. He was a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a member of the Black Student Association and studied under professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald, who raised his awareness of black history. Gates participated in the civil rights movement and worked as a lawyer before becoming a judge.

Agnes Gauges was born as Coleen Evans on November 21, 1926 in Arkansas.