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Transcript of Interview with Eleanor Walker, June 3, 2004
Eleanor Walker served as President of the Las Vegas Chapter of NAACP from 1971-1975.
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Photograph of Marcia and Dave Washington at the Moulin Rouge, November 1988
Color photograph of Marica and Dave Washington at an NAACP banquet at the Moulin Rouge in November 1988.
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Transcript of Interview with Rev. Jesse Scott, June 29, 2009
Rev. Jesse Scott served as executive director and four-term president of Las Vegas NAACP branch.
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Transcript of Interview with Dean Ishman, July 2, 2009
Dean Ishman moved to Las Vegas in 1995, becoming the Las Vegas NAACP branch president in 2003.
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Photograph of (left to right) Roosevelt Toston, Frank Hawkins, Zelda Puryear-Williams, and Wendell Williams, early 1990s
Black and white photograph of (left to right) Roosevelt Toston, Frank Hawkins, Zelda Puryear-Williams, and Wendell Williams attending the NAACP banquet.
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Glynda White oral history interviews
Oral history interviews with Glynda White conducted by Claytee D. White on March 12, 2013 and August 23, 2014 for the African Americans in Las Vegas: a Collaborative Oral History Project. Glynda White begins by discussing her upbringing in Jackson, Tennessee, where her father was a member of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was involved in the litigation to desegregate schools in the city. She explains how her father's activism inspired her to pursue a legal career and go to law school after graduating from Lambuth University. White discusses arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1970s to work as a teacher, later being on the board of the Las Vegas NAACP and working for the Nevada Black Chamber of Commerce. She describes her role at the College of Southern Nevada as a lead faculty member for the Department of Business Administration and Legal Studies, her teaching, and the work she has done to establish African American businesses in the Westside area of Las Vegas, as well as in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Transcript of Interview with James Rogers, June 30, 2009
James Rogers was President of the local NAACP from 1996-2000. He is also the Pastor of Greater New Jerusalem Church.
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Transcript of Interview with Gene Collins, July 16, 2009
Gene Collins served as President of Las Vegas chapter of NAACP 1998-2001. He aslso worked at the Nevada Test Site as an electrician.
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"Chapter 7: Civil Rights in a Resort City": manuscript by Roosevelt Fitzgerald
From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Unpublished manuscripts file. Pages 274 -313 of unknown manuscript.
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