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Lavern Cummings with cast members and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Carroll Wallace (?); unidentified female impersonator; Cissy King (Lawrence Welk Show); African-American female impersonator Elton Paris; Steve King (Lawrence Welk Show); two unidentified female impersonators; Antonio; three unidentified female impersonators; Reggie Dahl; Lavern Cummings at Finocchio's in San Francisco, California: photographic print, 1970 January
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Lavern Cummings with cast members and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Carroll Wallace (?); unidentified female impersonator; Cissy King (Lawrence Welk Show); African-American female impersonator Elton Paris; Steve King (Lawrence Welk Show); two unidentified female impersonators; Antonio; three unidentified female impersonators; Reggie Dahl; Lavern Cummings at Finocchio's in San Francisco, California: photographic negatives, 1970 January
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Transcript of an Interview with Marcia Washington by Claytee D. White, February 14 and March 14, 2013
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Marcia moved to Las vegas in 1966 as a young teen; became first African American on the State Board of Education (2000-2008)
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Lavern Cummings with cast members and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Lavern Cummings; unidentified female impersonator; unidentified female impersonator; African-American female impersonator Elton Paris; two unidentified female impersonators; Lucian Phelps; unidentified female impersonator; actress Bette Davis; two unidentified female impersonators; actor Gary Merrill (Davis' husband) at Finocchio's in San Francisco, California: photographic print, 1960 April
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Lavern Cummings with cast members and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Lavern Cummings; Francis Blair; Lucian Phelps; Lee Shaw; African-American female impersonator Elton Paris; middle: Asian actress Nancy Kwan; Storme Lee; Ray De Young; kneeling: Ray Francis; J. J. Van Dyke; Lestra LaMonte; Kara Montez; Jackie Phillips at Finocchio's in San Francisco, California: photographic print, 1960 to 1965
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Lavern Cummings with cast and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Ruth Roman; unidentified female impersonator; J. J. Van Dyke; unidentified female impersonator; Lavern Cummings; unidentified female impersonator; unidentified man; African American female impersonator Elton Paris; unidentified woman; two unidentified female impersonators; unidentified female impersonator; actress Ruth Roman; unidentified female impersonator at Finocchio's, San Francisco, California: photographic print, 1965 to 1975
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Lavern Cummings with cast and celebrity guest (identified left to right) Ruth Roman; unidentified female impersonator; J. J. Van Dyke; unidentified female impersonator; Lavern Cummings; unidentified female impersonator; unidentified man; African American female impersonator Elton Paris; unidentified woman; two unidentified female impersonators; unidentified female impersonator; actress Ruth Roman; unidentified female impersonator at Finocchio's, San Francisco, California: photographic negatives, 1965 to 1975
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Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Kimberly Bailey-Tureaud conducted by Patricia Holland on April 21, 2015 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Bailey-Tureaud discusses her career in radio broadcasting and her personal magazine, Las Vegas Black Image, which is published in Las Vegas, Nevada. She describes organizing a concert with a former radio station run by the Economic Opportunity Board, which featured African American musical talent, and working in conjunction with local African American radio station KCEP to promote Las Vegas Black Image, a publication which focuses on the African American community in Las Vegas. Bailey-Tureaud also discusses the lack of African American media in the Las Vegas area, how she sees Las Vegas and African American media in the city progressing in the future, and how she feels political and business interests suppress African American media in some circumstances.
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Transcript of Interview with Debbie Conway by Claytee D. White, March 13, 2013
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Interview of Debbie Conway by Claytee D. White, March 13, 2013. Conway is the first African American to hold office of Recorder in Clark County and in the state of Nevada. She speaks about her previous civilian jobs and working with small businesses and granting agencies.
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Transcript of interview with Gwen Walker by Claytee White, July 15, 2014
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Gwendolyn K. Walker arrived in North Las Vegas in 1962 from Houston, Texas, as a five-year-old with her parents, two brothers, and her cousins. The Walker family at first moved to a rented house on D Street, and Gwen attended Kit Carson Elementary School for first grade. Her mother enrolled in nursing school, so she sent Gwen back to Delhi, Louisiana, to be raised by her grandmother. In Delhi Gwen picked cotton with her aunt while she was in the second grade. Gwen returned to North Las Vegas to live with her mother and complete elementary school at Jo Mackey before matriculating to J. D. Smith Elementary School for junior high school and then to Clark High School. Later she attended UNLV. Gwen and her mother joined Saint James Catholic Church at H Street and Washington Avenue, but after she returned from Delhi she joined Second Baptist Church, where she became close with a cohort of friends that remained strong even as she experienced racism and bullying and love for the first time.
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