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Set of negatives by Clinton Wright including baby on H Street, Madison Negro History Week, and Westside School teachers, 1967

Date
1967
Archival Collection
Description

Photographer's notations: Baby on H Stret, Madison Negro History week at Ronzones [?], Westside School in-service teachers. To see photos from this grouping that have been digitized individually, see pho022098
Madison Elementary School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Set of negatives by Clinton Wright including Westside School registration, L. Vereye, Jo Mackey School, and PTA officers, 1965

Date
1965
Archival Collection
Description

Photographer's notations: Westside Schools Registration 9-2-65, L. Vereye, Jo Mackey School, PTA Officers '65. To see photos from this grouping that have been digitized individually, see pho022079
Jo Mackey Sixth Grade Center (North Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Set of negatives by Clinton Wright including a wedding reception, Rosee and Lee Sykes, Earl Cage Salon, Westside School, and teacher's party at Highland School, 1967

Date
1967
Archival Collection
Description

Photographer's notations: Wedding Reception 3-28-67, Rose & Lee Sykes 3-24, Earl Cage Salon 3-30, Westside schoo, Teachers party at Highland Schoo 3-31-67.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Shirley Edmond by Claytee D. White, June 24, 2010

Date
2010-06-24
Description

Part of an interview with Shirley Edmond conducted by Claytee D. White on June 24, 2010. Edmond shares childhood memories of Westside School.

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Newspaper clipping, Williams, man of many firsts, Las Vegas Sentinel Voice, October 25, 2012

Date
2012-10-25
Description

Obituary for Monroe Williams in the October 25, 2012 edition of Las Vegas Sentinel Voice.

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Transcript of interview with Eunice Claxton by Claytee White, June 4, 2015

Date
2015-06-04
Description

Lived in LV and Reno, attended Westside School, worked as shield in El Morocco, and memories of Jackson Street life. Donated small collection containing photographs; memorial programs containing some history of COGIC; and two bulletins of regional COGIC convocations, one at Nucleus Plaza; and the Gully Family History.

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Transcript of interview with Emory and Agnes Lockette by Claytee D. White, March 11, 2005

Date
2005-03-11
Description

Interview with Emory and Agnes Lockette conducted by Claytee D. White on March 11, 2005. The Lockettes were the only African Americans to live in Boulder City during years of racial tension. Agnes taught kindergarten at Westside School, while Emory worked for the Bureau of Reclamation.

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Transcript of Interview with Eddie & Johnie Wright

Date
2012-11-16
2012-11-28
2012-10-06 to 2013-10-13
Description

Eddie & Johnie Wright met met, married in 1957, and raised their family in Las Vegas. Johnie arrived in Las Vegas in 1941, teaching first grade at the Westside school, eventually becoming a nurses aide. Eddie came to Las Vegas from Arkansas, and became the first black ticket agent at the local Greyhound station.

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Video of Las Vegas African American Community Conversations, Part 1: Migration, Work, and Community Emergence

Date
2012
Description

The Las Vegas African American Community Conversations is a four part, one hour round table conversation with local Las Vegans. They share their powerful stories and great history, with topics ranging from “Migration, Civil Rights, Education, Church, Entertainment and the Early Legal Community”. Part One: A conversation about “Early Migration, Work and Community Emergence”. MODERATOR- Trish Geran ( Author/Community Activist) PANELISTS- Lucille Bryant (Community Activist) Jackie Brantley (Former Director-Office of Governor Kenny Guinn) Hannah Brown (Urban Chamber of Commerce) David L. Washington (1st Black Chief of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Department) Brenda J. Williams (President-Westside School Alumni Foundation)

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Transcript of Interview with Barbara Kirkland

Date
2004-11-12
Description

On a sunny day in 1946, the train from Shreveport, Louisiana, stopped at The Plaza hotel in downtown Las Vegas like it always did. But on this particular day, Atha Toliver and her only child, twelve-year-old Barbara, stepped off the train and onto the dusty Western street of Fremont. Narrator Barbara Bates Kirkland recalls that event and living in Las Vegas for most of the next seven decades during this 2004 interview. Like many others who migrated from the South, Barbara Kirkland’s mother would find employment as a maid. A friend who already lived in Las Vegas had told her of the good paying jobs as private maid. So Atha who was determined that her daughter would get an education and a finer future saw this as her opportunity to achieve this for her daughter. Later, the entrepreneurial and creative mother opened Eva’s Flower Basket, a floral shop that Barbara operates in her retirement from teaching. Barbara returned to Louisiana for her senior year in high school, attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, and then returned to Las Vegas to teach first grade at Westside School. Barbara was active in the community, was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze, involved with Zion United Methodist Church and was friends with many of the early African American community leaders at the time. She talks about these, describes various neighborhoods where she lived and about raising her own two children in Las Vegas. Barbara was a founding member of Les Femmes Douze. AKA/Akateens.

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