From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This photograph was taken three days before the Center's April 6, 2013 grand opening. ... The building was named for gay Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist, Robert L. Forbuss [1948-2012], who donated a substantial amount of money toward the Center's construction. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections Department holds a photograph and manuscript collection from Forbuss [MS-00888], as well as an oral history interview [F849.L35 F657 2010].
From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This photograph was taken three days before the Center's April 6, 2013 grand opening. ... The building was named for gay Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist, Robert L. Forbuss [1948-2012], who donated a substantial amount of money toward the Center's construction. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections Department holds a photograph and manuscript collection from Forbuss [MS-00888], as well as an oral history interview [F849.L35 F657 2010].
From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This photograph was taken three days before the Center's April 6, 2013 grand opening. ... The building was named for gay Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist, Robert L. Forbuss [1948-2012], who donated a substantial amount of money toward the Center's construction. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections Department holds a photograph and manuscript collection from Forbuss [MS-00888], as well as an oral history interview [F849.L35 F657 2010].
From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This photograph was taken three days before the Center's April 6, 2013 grand opening. ... The building was named for gay Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist, Robert L. Forbuss [1948-2012], who donated a substantial amount of money toward the Center's construction. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections Department holds a photograph and manuscript collection from Forbuss [MS-00888], as well as an oral history interview [F849.L35 F657 2010].
From the Dennis McBride Photograph Collection (PH-00263) -- LGBTQ+ events and organizations in Las Vegas, Nevada -- Digital images file. Notes from the donor, Dennis McBride: This photograph was taken three days before the Center's April 6, 2013 grand opening. ... The building was named for gay Las Vegas businessman and philanthropist, Robert L. Forbuss [1948-2012], who donated a substantial amount of money toward the Center's construction. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Special Collections Department holds a photograph and manuscript collection from Forbuss [MS-00888], as well as an oral history interview [F849.L35 F657 2010].
Oral history interview with Claytee D. White conducted by Stefani Evans on November 2, 2023 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. In this interview, Claytee D. White, founding directory of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the OHRC by contributing her oral history to the collection.
She begins by explaining how the system of sharecropping worked in her family near rural Ahoskie, North Carolina, and she talks about the field work involved in raising cotton, tobacco, corn, and peanuts. The fifth of eight children and the first daughter, she shares memories of going into town with her mother, of admiring her women teachers, and of attending North Carolina Central College (now University) for two years before moving to Washington, D.C., and working for the telephone company.
After recalling her two years in D.C. and 22 years in Los Angeles, California, she describes "running away" to Las Vegas, Nevada in the early 1990s. Here, at the History department at UNLV, she recalls learning to conduct oral histories. White shares memories of her first interviews with Hazel and Jimmy Gay and Lucille Bryant. She talks of matriculating to the College of William and Mary for her PhD and of returning to Bertie County to live with her mother and administer the office of The Shaw University Center for Alternative Programs in Education (CAPE). She describes how she was offered the position of OHRC founding director, why it matters that she was an "opportunity hire," and how it feels to be the only Black person in a room.
Oral history interview with Lupe Avelar conducted by Marcela Rodriguez-Campo and Maribel Estrada Calderón for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Lupe Avelar describes her life growing up in Durango, Mexico on a family farm and her immigration to New Mexico as a teen with her brother before returning back to Mexico. Lupe talks about her marriage to Eladio Avelar and how the couple eventually moved to California as well as her circumstances of moving to Las Vegas. Subjects discussed include: cotton fields; cotton farming.