The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories
Roske local oral history projectRepository: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Special Collections
Collection Description (CRHP): Most interviews in this collection were recorded in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and many have not been transcribed. Topics covered in interviews include Black life in Las Vegas and Nevada generally, as well as school integration, Black entertainers on the strip, Black coaches, housing issues, unions, NAACP, Union Pacific Railroad, Black Mormons, race discrimination, job discrimination, bussing, and public accommodations.
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Collection URL: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=oh 
Date(s): 1974-1998
Digital Status: No
Extent: tapes, transcripts
Language: English
Related Archival Items: See also interviews in the UNLV collection with Mason, Brenda; Banks, Myrtle (1981); Barr, Larry & Juanita; Gibson, Steven (1976); Caldwell, Richard (1980); Cleman (Conner), Rosemary C. (1981); Gay, Jimmy; Hoggard, J. David; and Pittman, Lonnie (1981). These interviews are not associated with the Roske Local History Collection, but they do discuss African American experiences in Nevada.
Interviewees: Maceo Anderson, George L. Bach, William H. Bailey, Rex A. Bell, Donald Edward Borsack, Bernard Lee Brown, Patricia Bryan, Carrie Christensen, Buster Stevens, Betty Joyce Bearden Clark, Hal G. Curtis, Ralph Daly, Marian Beltran Decaro, Irene Doty, Margaret Duncan, Jacqueline Dwyer Evans, Dale Duane Everett, Charles H. Finks, H.P. Fitzgerald, Theda Grinnell, Lubertha Johnson, Steve Johnson, Cathy Jones, Willie Jones, Margo Knowles, Luella Knuckles, Fluff LeCoque, Lenny Martin, James Matson, Al McDaniel, Stella Parson, William Rehn, Arlene Scott, Robert Lee Taylor, Claude Treinier, Buddy Treinier, Skip Treinier, Tim Wagner, Rev. Prentiss Walker, George Ward
Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights
Subjects:
African American coaches African American entertainers African American Mormons African Americans--Civil rights--Nevada African Americans--Nevada African Americans--Social conditions Busing for school integration Discrimination in employment Discrimination in housing Discrimination in public accommodations Labor unions Labor--History National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Race discrimination--Nevada Railroads School integration--Nevada United States. Air Force
Genres:
Interviews Sound recordings Transcripts
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