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Edythe and Lloyd Katz correspondence, meeting agenda and essay, 1967-2001
Correspondence and ephemera from Edythe and Lloyd Katz's involvement in the Jewish community and Holocaust education, 1967-2001. Letters include discussion of Ralph Englestad and Imperial Palace Hotel.
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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 11
Community Relations Committee meeting minutes for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, Nevada, February 24, 1988.
Linda Vasquez oral history interview
Oral history interview with Linda Vasquez conducted by Patricia van Betten on February 18, 2005 for the History of Blue Diamond Village in Nevada Oral History Project. Vasquez discusses her childhood in Norwich, Connecticut and her first trip to Blue Diamond, Nevada in 1966 as a high school graduation gift. She describes the early Blue Diamond community, and her eventual move to Nevada around 1975. She details her husband Simon Vasquez's childhood in Blue Diamond, from his education at the first school in Blue Diamond to his commute to Las Vegas High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. She then discusses her husband's roles at the Blue Diamond Mine, from the time he was eighteen years old until his death. Vasquez then details the health care in Blue Diamond, as well as the schools, the post service, and the telephone and electricity services.
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Video Interview with Eva G. Simmons at Vegas PBS, November 19, 2013
Eva is a founder of Les Femme Douze, a teacher for nearly four decades, community leader. Talks about recruitment of black teachers; Mabel Hoggard among other topics from the 1960s-1980s; and the future of the Westside.
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