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Audio recording clip of Interview with Eddie & Johnie Wright

Date
2012-10-06
2012-10-13
2012-11-16
2012-11-28
Description

Part of an interview with Eddie Wright, Jr. by Leon Green in the fall of 2012. Wright talks about his different jobs and the part his race played in getting jobs in the workforce.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee D. White, February 21, 2007

Date
2007-02-21
Description

Part of an interview with Helen Anderson Toland by Claytee White on February 21, 2007. Toland discusses her husband, civil rights activist Jim Anderson, and the people who worked in the Las Vegas NAACP.

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Audio clip of Interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo, October 12, 2012

Date
2012-10-12
Description

Part of an interview with Henry L. Regan Jr. by John Grygo on October 12, 2012. Regan discusses racism in high school sports after integration, then Regan's first job as a stock clerk at Vegas Village.

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Audio recording clip of an interview with Gertrude Toston

Date
2006-07-21
Description

Part of an interview with Gertrude Toston by Claytee White on July 21, 2006. Toston discusses going to work for Western Airlines, at first as a customer service agent in 1967, and then as a flight attendant, while going to school.

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Audio recording clip from an interview with Hazel Geran

Date
2000-08-30
Description

Part of an interview with Hazel Geran by Claytee D. White on August 30, 2000. Geran talks about The Cove Hotel and Jackson Hotel on Jackson Street.

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Audio recording clip from an interview with Lindell Blake

Date
2006-01-12
Description

Part of an interview with Lindell Blake by Claytee D. White on January 12, 2006. Blake discusses his practice of dancing and the future of tap dancing.

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Audio recording clip from interview with Ruby Duncan by Claytee White, March 2, 2007

Date
2007-02-13
2007-03-02
Description

Part of an interview with Ruby Duncan conducted by Claytee White, March 2, 2013. Duncan talks about the Welfare Rights "sit-in" at the Palms Room at the Stardust Hotel with Mary Wesley and a group of children. Ruby and Mary were arrested and promptly released.

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Audio recording clip from interview with Sonny Thomas by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013

Date
2013-02-28
Description

Part of an inverview with Sonny Thomas conducted by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013. Thomas describes job options when he arrived in Las Vegas in 1959.

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Audio recording clip from an interview with James Jones Jr. by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013

Date
2013-02-28
Description

Part of an interview of James Jones, Jr. conducted by Barbara Tabach, February 28, 2013 . Jones Jr. highlights his work opportunities and racism in 1959 Las Vegas. In the clip, Jones Jr. discusses his first job in Las Vegas, where he became ill after four hours, and his subsequent job at a neighborhood grocery store.

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Audio recording clip of interview with Nafeesa Sallee by John Grygo, March 21, 2013

Date
2013-03-21
Description

Part of an interview with Nafeesa Sallee conducted by John Gyrgo on March 21, 2013. Sallee discusses her career transition to the banking industry, buying a home and when she first heard about the Westside.

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