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Fundraiser at the NAACP Valley View Golf Club. From left to right: James B. McMillan, J. David Hoggard, Herb Mills, Claude Perkins, Sarrann Knight, Willie "Punch" Hughes, and Lorenzo Calhoun, 1972 November
Collection Name: Marie and James B. McMillan Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Las Vegas Voice, Las Vegas Sentinel Voice, and The Valley Times newspaper clippings regarding NAACP, housing, and West Las Vegas, Nevada casinos, 1963 to 2009
Collection Name: Q. B. Bush Papers
Box/Folder: Box 01
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Sorority; Mrs. McGlothins initiation[?]; NAACP at Doolittle; Women's Progressive Club; Mother Figgins - Mother’s Day; James Daniels; Wedding - Roy Glenn, from Hollywood, Copy Reverend (for Reverend Bennett): photographic negative, 1967
Collection Name: Clinton Wright Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 02
Archival Component
The first Freedom Fund banquet at the Las Vegas Convention Center Gold Room. From left to right: James B. McMillan, Tarea Hall Pittman (regional director of the NAACP), and Dr. Charles I. West presenting an award to Woodrow Wilson, 1958
Collection Name: Marie and James B. McMillan Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 01
Archival Component
Audio recording clip of interview with Woodrow Wilson by Gwendolyn Goodloe, February 28, 1975
Part of an interview with Woodrow Wilson conducted by Gwendolyn Goodloe on February 28, 1975. Wilson recalls his experiences in the NAACP and the Nevada Legislature, particularly his support for equal rights in business and housing.
Sound
Audio clip from interview with J. David Hoggard, February 1, 1999
In this audio clip, J. David Hoggard discusses the local chapter of the NAACP in Las Vegas and the Human Relations Commission.
Sound
Meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel coffee shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip: photographic print
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Las Vegas Branch
Local chapter of the NAACP, established to advocate for civil rights and social justice within the Las Vegas community.
Corporate Body
Photograph of the meeting at Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip, March, 1960
Black and white photograph of the March 1960 meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip. City officials and NAACP members met to eliminate segregation in public accommodations and jobs and discuss calling off demonstrations on the Strip in the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada. From left to right: Woodrow Wilson (NAACP), Lubertha M. Warden Johnson, Bob Bailey (NAACP), Clesse Turner (County Commissioner), Butch W. E. Leypoldt (Sheriff), Hank Greenspun (Las Vegas Sun), Dr. James B. McMillan (President of the NAACP), Oran Gragson (Mayor), Dr. Charles I. West, Ray K. Sheffer (Chief of Police), Art Olsen (County Commissioner), possibly David Hoggard, and Donald Clark (NAACP).
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Jesse Scott oral history interview
Oral history interview with Jesse Scott conducted by Claytee D. White on June 29, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. In this interview, Scott describes growing up in Louisiana and his initial involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as vice president of the youth council. He recalls positions he held beginning in the 1970s with the Las Vegas NAACP branch as an executive director, executive director of the Equal Rights Commission, and later, president of the Las Vegas NAACP.
Archival Collection