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Audio recording clip of interview with Katherine Duncan and Sarann Knight Preddy by Claytee D. White, November 28, 2004
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Archival Collection
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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
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Women of Diversity Productions, Inc. Records
Box/Folder: Box 02
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Sarann Knight oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Sarann Knight Preddy conducted by Yvonne R. Hunter on July 16, 1975 for the Ralph Roske Oral History Project on Early Las Vegas. Knight discusses her bar (The Lincoln Bar) in Hawthorne, Nevada and how she built it for the African American community because of limited access to venues due to segregation. Knight then talks about working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the influence that gambling had on the community.
Archival Collection
Transcript of interview with Sarann Knight by Yvonne Hunter, July 16, 1975
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Sarann Knight [Preddy] conducted by Yvonne Hunter on July 16, 1975. 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.
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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
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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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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.
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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
Newspaper clipping, GOP Blacks Anti-Knight, Las Vegas Sun, January 23, 1979
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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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Duncan, Katherine
Katherine Duncan was born in Ratio, Arkansas. Her parents, who were sharecroppers, and her 11 brothers and sister migrated to Boston in the winter of 1969. She moved to Las Vegas on July 7th, 1977 and started working at the MGM Grand Hotel. She also worked with the Nevada Motion Picture Services, at her own travel agency, and at the Riviera Resort and Casino. She started a black heritage tour of Las Vegas.
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