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Audio clip from interview with Ruby Amie-Pilot, August 7, 2012
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Archival Collection
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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.
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Audio clip from interview with Nathaniel Whaley by John Grygo, March 6, 2013
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In this clip, Nathaniel Whaley talks about the differences between the opportunities for weekend entertainment for black and white young people in Las Vegas in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Audio recording clip from an interview with James Jones Jr. by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview of James Jones, Jr. conducted by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013 . Jones Jr. highlights his work opportunities and racism in 1959 Las Vegas. In the clip, Jones Jr. discusses his first job in Las Vegas, where he became ill after four hours, and his subsequent job at a neighborhood grocery store.
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Audio recording clip of Interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White, April 19 and April 20, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White, April 19, 2013. Holloway tells of receiving honorary music degree from the School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia, 40 years after World War II in 1981.
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Audio recording clip of interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee D. White, August 31, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee White on August 31, 2013. McCurdy talks about one of his mentors, Herman Moody, the first African American police officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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