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Transcript of interview with Judge Lee Gates by Claytee D. White, December 5, 1996
Interview with Judge Lee Gates conducted by Claytee D. White on December 5, 1996. Born in Louisiana, Gates moved to Las Vegas around 1960. Following high school, he attended UNLV, where he was a member of the Black Student Association and studied under professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald, who raised his awareness of black history. Gates participated in the civil rights movement and worked as a lawyer before becoming a judge. He discusses Jackson Street, Dr. Charles West, attorney Charles Kellar, and his own involvement with Ruby Duncan's group.
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SubSeries 2.2. Economic Development – Business Development/Job Development
There are materials pertaining to specific Operation Life projects including the Overall Economic Development Plans and miscellaneous material relating to governmental agencies and economic development and job development organizations.
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
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Subseries 1.6. Funding
Covered are grant applications and information pertaining to various grants. Grants included the Community Development Block grant and funding sources that Operation Life utilized to fund their services and projects, such as the city of Las Vegas, Clark County, the state of Nevada, the Community Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and various private funding sources, such as the Ford Foundation.
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
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Gates, Lee
Judge Lee Gates was born in Louisiana in the 1940s, but moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1960 with his father. His mother had moved there earlier, gotten a job, and established a home in the historical Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas. He was a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a member of the Black Student Association and studied under professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald, who raised his awareness of black history. Gates participated in the civil rights movement and worked as a lawyer before becoming a judge.
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Subseries 1.3. Legal Documents
Legal materials include articles of incorporation for Operation Life, Operation Life Local Development Company, and Operation Life Enterprises, Inc. It also includes the bylaws for Operation Life CDC and Operation Life Local Development Company. Also contained are lease agreements between Operation Life and various other entities and real property, escrow and earnest money documents pertaining to property purchased by Operation Life.
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
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Subseries 2.3. Health and Human Services
Included are miscellaneous informational materials, a working file for the Committee of Low Income Women, working files for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse program for 1986–1988, food bank client forms, applications and submission logs for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, material specific to the operations of the medical center, program applications for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) from 1983 to 1987, and miscellaneous files pertaining to youth employment, Carey Arms Daycare and general youth issues.
Collection Name: Ruby Duncan Collection on Operation Life
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Anderson, Jack Francis, 1940-
Attorney Jack Anderson was one of the lawyers who handled legal issues for Operation Life, the Westside community organization founded by welfare rights activist Ruby Duncan. The organization aided residents in housing, health services, food, education, job training, day care for working mothers, and general economic development. A former card dealer, Anderson, a caucasian, graduated from the historically black Howard Law School, and began work with his friend Mahlon Brown III, for Clark County Legal Services in the early 1970s.
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Gates, Lee
Judge Lee Gates was born in Louisiana in the 1940s, but moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1960 with his father. His mother had moved there earlier, gotten a job, and established a home in the historical Westside neighborhood of Las Vegas. He was a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he was a member of the Black Student Association and studied under professor Roosevelt Fitzgerald, who raised his awareness of black history. Gates participated in the civil rights movement and worked as a lawyer before becoming a judge.
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Guinn, Diane, 1949-
Diane Guinn was a State of Nevada Division of State Welfare and Supportive Services worker who worked assisted Ruby Duncan in developing Operation Life in 1972, a nonprofit organization that promoted welfare reform in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born on April 5, 1949 in Seattle, Washington, and later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1952. Her mother, Louise Canon, was a cashier in restaurants and a manager in dress stores, while her father, Doug Canon, was a bartender. Guinn married Frank Guinn, an electrical foreman, on 1972 in Las Vegas.
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