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Rex Bell with unidentified group: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Dorothy Bell Scans UNLV-Public Lands Institute. Rex Bell (George Francis Beldam) (second from left) with an unidentified group in an unknown location. Stamped on back: "Las Vegas News Bureau, Las Vegas, Nev. - P.O. Box 28, Photographers Don English, Joe Buck, Jerry Abbott, Milt Palmer."
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Photograph of Dell Ray Rhodes in kindergarten, age 5
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Archival Collection
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Black and white photograph of Dell Ray Rhodes from kindergarten school, mounted on a card addressed to her aunt and uncle. The card reads, "From, Dell Ray Gregory School Days = 1952-53, To Aunt + Uncle Mr + Mrs Willie Washington First year in kindergarten 5 years old."
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Transcript of interview with Arby Hambric by Claytee D. White, September 23, 2015
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Archival Collection
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Arby L. Hambric's book entitled, "To Thee I See: From picking in the fields of Texas to cooking for dignitaries on U.S. Navy ships, a journey I wouldn't change," describes his profound journey from working in the cotton fields as a child to being drafted into the U.S. Navy, before completing high school. During this interview, he recalls the significant achievements of the "Red Tails" and the Tuskegee Airmen. Beginning his 20 year Navy career before military integration, Arby describes the racial tensions that plagued the U.S. Navy in the 1940s, and discusses how he was able to successfully navigate that racist environment for two decades and three war eras. Arby enrolled in San Diego State College after leaving the U.S. Navy. He also worked as maintenance personnel for Sears and Roebuck and started a catering business with his wife. He became a member of the Southern Nevada Enterprise Community, SNEC Board upon moving to Las Vegas, Nevada, after his wife died. With a family legacy he can be proud of, Arby highlights the achievements of his great grandson Taquan Mizzell, a Virginia Cavaliers running back at the University of Virginia. As a Navy veteran, Arby often volunteered his time and resources to help others in need. He recalls driving the sick and elderly back and forth from the Westside community to Valley Hospital or University Medical Center, UMC. He also discusses government enforced road closures and a wall that was built to block Blacks from entering the new downtown. This interview sheds new light on military integration and offers key strategies for overcoming environmental racism. Arby mentions a documentary about the closing of the wall and offers his predictions on the future of the Westside.
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Photograph of Edith Corliss Giles, (Nev.), circa 1900
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Janet Savalli by Irene Rostine, September 21, 1996
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Archival Collection
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Interviewed by Irene Rostine. Janet Savalli's family moved from Phoenix, Arizona, to Henderson, Nevada, in 1945 so her father could work at the Basic Magnesium plant. A few years later, when she was a junior in high school, Janet began her 46-plus years career at the Southern Nevada Telephone Company, which eventually became Sprint. During that period she held several positions, including operator, supervisor, schedule clerk, trainer, investigator, and community relations coordinator. Janet also talks about the atomic bomb testing at Camp Mercury and Camp Desert Rock near Las Vegas. Janet credits the atomic bomb testing with jump-starting the second wave of growth Las Vegas experienced following World War II. This growth had a particular influence on the telecommunications industry's need to expand in Las Vegas.
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