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As one of five founders of the Las Vegas Black Historical Society Inc., White has interviewed hundreds ... guest that there’s a room, filled with photos and memorabilia, named after him.
Black performers integrated the "Mississippi of the West." Anna Bailey, the first Black showgirl on the Las Vegas strip ... civil rights people," Claytee White, Director of the Oral History ...
If you’ve looked around the Las Vegas strip in the past and thought this is pretty white, you’d be correct ... as The Sun says the number of Black tourists doubled in 2020 compared to previous ...
About 10% of the Las Vegas police force is Black compared with 56% white. About 12% of the city’s population is Black. Nationwide, about 17% of officers are Black, according to the U.S. Bureau ...
They organized read-ins in white neighborhoods because the Las Vegas library district refused to open brick-and-mortar libraries in Black parts of town. And they sang civil rights songs outside ...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS ... Shades of the Black Experience: Celebrating African Americans in Labor On Saturday, Feb. 22, join the community at White Recreation Center for a free event celebrating ...
However, it wasn’t until the late 1920s that the town became segregated, notes Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries. As one of ...