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Photograph of black law enforcement officers, 2000

Date

2000

Description

(L-R) Charles Hank (Captain, Metro); Vic Dunn (Deputy Chief, North Las Vegas police); Greg Boyakins (Postal Inspector); Greg McCurdy (Las Vegas Metro); Chuck Mangrum (retired Lt., Metro)

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Photograph of Greg McCurdy (right) and Sheriff Jerry Keller, 2002

Date

2002

Description

Greg McCurdy and Sheriff Jerry Keller with his Lloyd Sealy Award at a National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives [NOBLE] meeting in 2002.

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Norma de la Cerna Tolbert oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02886

Abstract

Oral history interview with Norma de la Cerna Tolbert conducted by Claytee D. White on June 25, 2013 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Tolbert discusess her career as a professional dancer from the age of fifteen. She begins by describing her early childhood in Houston, Texas, moving to Chicago, Illinois where she began to study dance, and leaving home at fifteen years old to go to Atlantic City, New Jersey to dance in professional productions. Tolbert then discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1955, performing at the Moulin Rouge, and living in the Berkley Square community where they built new housing for the dancers. She also discusses performing at the Dunes Hotel and Casino, the African American community of Las Vegas, and the closing of the Moulin Rouge.

Archival Collection

Charles West oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01954

Abstract

Oral history interview with Charles West conducted by Perry Kaufman on April 19, 1974 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. West discusses the African American community in Las Vegas, Nevada and what the living conditions were for them. West then explains how the Nevada Voters League changed the way politics played out after more African Americans went out to vote. He also discusses his work as the first African American Doctor in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Health committee reports and National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer, Las Vegas coalition (NBLIC) fliers

Date

1997-01-14 to 1997-12-06

Description

From the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Theta Theta Omega Chapter Records (MS-01014) -- Chapter records file.

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Ruth Eppenger D'hondt oral history interview

Identifier

OH-00446

Abstract

Oral history interview with Ruth Eppenger D'hondt conducted by Claytee D. White on August 25, 2011 and July 9, 2012 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Eppenger D'Hondt discusses her family's restaurant business on Jackson Street. She also discusses what it was like to be one of first black families to live in Berkley Square.

Archival Collection

Newspaper clipping, Photograph with Verlia Davis presenting oral histories, The Advertiser, February 21, 1979

Date

1979-02-21

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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Photograph of Dell Ray Rhodes with her brother an an unidentified male child in Westside Alley, 1955

Date

1955

Description

Dell Ray Rhodes with her brother in the alley behind her grandmother's house , between Monroe and Jackson Streets in 1955. (as featured with oral history transcript)

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Beryl Warren oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02720

Abstract

Oral history interview with Beryl Warren conducted by Claytee D. White on June 21, 2016 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Warren begins her interview by describing her early life in Mobile, Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s. She then discusses her young adult life in California as a telephone operator. Warren then talks about her marriages, her education at St. Dominguez College in California, and working for Motown Records as production assistant. Warren then discusses her husband, Mark Warren, a prominent African American television producer and director. She explains that she came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1993 when Mark wanted to buy a vacation home in the area. She then talks about how during the 1990s the couple had jobs in Las Vegas, but also commuted to work in Los Angeles on occasion, until her husband's death in 1999. She then describes how family tragedy led to her raising her grandchildren, and also take on some hobbies, such as gardening, in order to live an active lifestyle. Warren then discusses her life with her husband and her fondness for him, and having to teach her grandsons to be cautious around police while raising them in Las Vegas. Lastly, she recalls her community work and her service organization, Southern Nevada Collation of Concerned Women (SNCCW).

Archival Collection

Transcript of Interview with Julia A. Payne, 2004

Date

2004-02-11
2004-03-07

Description

Julia Payne, the Executive Director of the Nevada Treatment Center, talks about Las Vegas from the 1960s to the time of the interview.

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