From the Syphus-Bunker Papers (MS-00169). The folder contains an original handwritten letter, an envelope, a typed transcription of the same letter, and a copy of original letter attached.
Lois Goodall was born July 18, 1938 in Odessa, Missouri to a father who was a farmer and a teacher mother. Goodall went to college to become a teacher, and her freshman year met a young sophomore gentleman by the name of Pat Goodall. They married and while Goodall attended graduate school at the University of Missouri, she taught fifth grade.
Oral history interview with Felicia Campbell conducted by Kendra Gage on June 28, 2012 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Campbell discusses her career in education and her advocacy for equal pay for women employees of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She begins by briefly discussing her family history and her education before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1962 to take a professorship at the newly established University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Campbell describes discovering the disparities between the salaries of female professors and male professors, organizing the women faculty on campus, establishing the Women's Caucus, and the litigation she faced from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Campbell also talks about her travels, other issues as they relate to labor and women's rights, and founding the first chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) in Las Vegas.
Oral history interview with Kenny Bayless conducted by Eric Billington on November 20, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Bayless begins the interview by talking about his childhood in California and his religious upbringing. He then discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1972 in order to pursue a career in teaching and coaching track. Bayless discusses his views of Las Vegas upon his arrival, namely the perceptions towards black people in the area. He then details his life as a teacher for the Clark County School District (CCSD), and teaching at the juvenile detention center after his retirement from CCSD. Bayless also discusses the night life in Las Vegas from the 1970s to the present, he talks about the exclusion of black people from certain establishments and the Moulin Rouge Hotel as a respite for black night life in West Las Vegas.