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Sarann Knight Preddy with Senator Howard Cannon, 1979

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Collection Number: PH-00277
Collection Name: North Las Vegas Library Photograph Collection on North Las Vegas, Nevada
Box/Folder: Folder 36

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72 Years in Las Vegas by Sarann Knight Preddy manuscript, 2014

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Collection Number: MS-01161
Collection Name: Women of Diversity Productions, Inc. Records
Box/Folder: Box 02

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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

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Collection Number: PH-00379
Collection Name: Clinton Wright Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 02

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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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