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Memoranda: student exchange support, WICHE higher education report, Interstate Financial Statement, radionuclide migration, Nevada Test Site reports, flood control, and the Nevada Hazardous Materials Support Plan, 1985-1986
Collection Name: John Vergiels Political Papers
Box/Folder: Box 013
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Kersting, A. B., D. W. Efurd, D. L. Finnegan, D. J. Rokop, D. K. Smith, and J. L. Thompson, 1999, "Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada Test Site," Nature, Volume 397, pp. 56 to 59, January 7, Macmillan Publishers, Great Britain, 1999
Collection Name: Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 13
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Shipers, R. L., and C. P. Harlan, 1989, Background Information for the Development of a Low-Level Waste Performance Assessment Methodology, Volume 2: Assessment of Relative Significance of Migration and Exposure Pathways, NUREG/CR-5453, SAND89-2509, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1989
Collection Name: Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 27
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Jimmy Gay oral history interview: audio clip
Jimmy Gay discusses racism in Las Vegas before and after World War II. He says that prior to WWII, there wasn't a lot of prejudice, and there were only a few African American families. After WWII, he says that the influx of soldiers returning and the migration of Black families from the South led to Las Vegas becoming the "Mississippi of the West."
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"Blacks in the West Before the 20th Century": unpublished manuscript by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Unpublished manuscripts file.
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Transcript of interview with Woodrow Wilson by Jamie Coughtry, 1989
Interview with Woodrow Wilson conducted by Jamie Coughtry in 1989. Born in a Mississippi sawmill town in 1915 to a family that ran a boarding house, Wilson completed high school at a private boarding school and attended two years of junior college before the declining economy forced him into the Civilian Conservation Corps to work as a cook and baker. Migrating west in 1940, Wilson soon settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked for Basic Magnesium, Inc. He became a prominent Westside community activist, founding a federal credit union and serving as president of the Las Vegas NAACP. Wilson worked for over thirty years as a warehouseman for companies that occupied the Basic Magnesium site. In 1966, he was elected to the state assembly, becoming the first black legislator in the history of Nevada, advocating open housing legislation, anti-discrimination regulations, welfare reform, and civil rights.
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Maria Benítez oral history interview
Oral history interview with Maria Benítez conducted by Monserrath Hernández and Maribel Estrada Calderón on June 21, 2019 for the Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada Oral History Project. Maria Benítez is the image of a hardworking and determined Salvadoran woman. After facing adversity amidst the Salvadorian Civil War she talks about her journey as a nurse in El Salvador and migrating to the United States. Here in Las Vegas, she has worked as a cook on the Strip, been an active member of her church, and supported the education of her children selling pupusas. Subjects discussed include: El Salvador, Salvadorian Civil War, Migration, US Citizenship Documentation, and Judaism.
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