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Perry Rogers oral history interview
Oral history interview with Perry Rogers conducted by Patrick Carlton on March 25, 2003 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Rogers discusses being the president of Agassi Enterprises and the Andre Agassi Foundation. Rogers explains why he and Andre Agassi wanted to found an educational program to help disadvantaged youths in the Las Vegas, Nevada community in 1993. Rogers also discusses how they came to choose Wayne Tanaka to be the principal of the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy and the need for education reform in the United States.
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Olive, Fern S., 1895-1992
Fern S. Olive was a Las Vegas, Nevada elementary school teacher. She was born September 24, 1895 in Minnesota. Olive later married Wilford Clay Olive on June 5, 1928 and lived in Las Vegas for sixty-five years. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Olive died July 16, 1992.
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"Deaths." Las Vegas Review-Journal. July 19, 1992.
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Photograph of school children, Panaca, circa 1900-1909
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Louise Randall Lawler oral history interview
Oral history interview with Louise Randall Lawler conducted by Claytee D. White on September 25, 2021 for African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project.
Louise Randall Lawler discusses her early years in Las Vegas, her family history, and her experience as Rancho High School's first Black cheerleader. She talks about her cheer experience at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, her teaching career for the Clark County School District at Rancho High School and Valley High School, her time dancing with Redd Foxx, and her bartending career at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino.
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Photographs of First rally of the Frontier Strike, Culinary Union, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1991 August 07 (folder 3 of 3)
Culinary Union workers march in the first rally of the Frontier Strike on August 7, 1991 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Additionally, images show police officers on bicycles and Culinary Union workers crowding around Jim Arnold, former secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union. The Frontier marquee is depicted and reads, "Welcome teachers & ironworkers, bottled beer 25 cents 2pm Aug. 7 .. 10"Arrangement note: Series I. Demonstrations, Subseries I.A. Frontier Strike Site name: Frontier Hotel and Casino
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