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Sorority; Mrs. McGlothins initiation[?]; NAACP at Doolittle; Women's Progressive Club; Mother Figgins - Mother’s Day; James Daniels; Wedding - Roy Glenn, from Hollywood, Copy Reverend (for Reverend Bennett): photographic negative, 1967
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Clinton Wright Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
The first Freedom Fund banquet at the Las Vegas Convention Center Gold Room. From left to right: James B. McMillan, Tarea Hall Pittman (regional director of the NAACP), and Dr. Charles I. West presenting an award to Woodrow Wilson, 1958
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Marie and James B. McMillan Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Audio recording clip of interview with Woodrow Wilson by Gwendolyn Goodloe, February 28, 1975
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Part of an interview with Woodrow Wilson conducted by Gwendolyn Goodloe on February 28, 1975. Wilson recalls his experiences in the NAACP and the Nevada Legislature, particularly his support for equal rights in business and housing.
Sound
Audio clip from interview with J. David Hoggard, February 1, 1999
Date
Archival Collection
Description
In this audio clip, J. David Hoggard discusses the local chapter of the NAACP in Las Vegas and the Human Relations Commission.
Sound
Meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel coffee shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip: photographic print
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Las Vegas Branch (Las Vegas, Nev.).
Corporate Body Alternate Name
No description.
Corporate Body
Jesse Scott oral history interview
Identifier
Abstract
Oral history interview with Jesse Scott conducted by Claytee D. White on June 29, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Scott describes growing up in Louisiana and his initial involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as vice president of the youth council. He recalls positions he held beginning in the 1970s with the Las Vegas NAACP branch as an executive director, executive director of the Equal Rights Commission, and later, president of the Las Vegas NAACP.
Archival Collection
Dean Ishman oral history interview
Identifier
Abstract
Oral history interview with Dean Ishman conducted by Claytee D. White on July 02, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview Dean Ishman discusses moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1995, becoming the President of the Las Vegas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 2003, and reorganizing the NAACP when he was president. He also discusses the numerous fundraisers he attended, Freedom Fund banquets, the Suave Lopez shooting, and efforts to recruit Hispanic people to the NAACP during his presidency.
Archival Collection
Photograph of the meeting at Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip, March, 1960
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Black and white photograph of the March 1960 meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip. City officials and NAACP members met to eliminate segregation in public accommodations and jobs and discuss calling off demonstrations on the Strip in the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada. From left to right: Woodrow Wilson (NAACP), Lubertha M. Warden Johnson, Bob Bailey (NAACP), Clesse Turner (County Commissioner), Butch W. E. Leypoldt (Sheriff), Hank Greenspun (Las Vegas Sun), Dr. James B. McMillan (President of the NAACP), Oran Gragson (Mayor), Dr. Charles I. West, Ray K. Sheffer (Chief of Police), Art Olsen (County Commissioner), possibly David Hoggard, and Donald Clark (NAACP).
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