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Audio recording clip of interview with Essie Shelton Jacobs by Claytee D. White, February 1, 1996, and April 15, 1996
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Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Essie Shelton Jacobs by Claytee White on February 1, 1996 and April 15, 1996. Jacobs discusses her role as a shop steward in the Culinary Union and describes community relations with the union.
Sound
Audio recording clip of interview with Rev. Prentiss Walker by Bernard Timberg, January 27, 1974
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Rev. Prentiss Walker conducted by Bernard Timberg on January 27, 1974. Walker describes discrimination during Hoover Dam construction and life in Las Vegas prior to segregation.
Sound
Audio recording clips of interview with Rev. Claude H. and Stella Parson by Maurice R. Page, February 26, 1977
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Two audio clips from an interview with Stella and Rev. Claude H. Parson conducted by Maurice R. Page on February 26, 1977. As educators, the Parsons discuss the integration of schools in Las Vegas. In the clips, Rev. Parson discusses early housing development in West Las Vegas, church management, and equal opportunity progress.
Sound
Audio recording clip of interview with Isadore Washington by Claytee D. White, February 7, 2008
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Isadore Washington by Claytee White on February 7, 2008. Washington describes arresting a white man at Gilbert's Liquor Store as a young police officer.
Sound
Audio recording clip of an interview with Gertrude Toston
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee White on July 21, 2006. Toston discusses going to work for Western Airlines, at first as a customer service agent in 1967, and then as a flight attendant, while going to school.
Sound
Audio clip from interview with Ruby Amie-Pilot, August 7, 2012
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Ruby Amie-Pilot on August 7, 2012. In this clip Amie-Pilot talks about plans to picket Floyd Patterson fight at the Las Vegas Convention Center, because blacks not allowed to attend.
Sound