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Paul S. Adamian Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 0403
Abstract
Records include general correspondence, copies of legal records, ephemera, and newspaper clippings, 1970-1979. Also records, 1965-1966, concerning his teaching appointment at Southern Oregon College, Ashland, Oregon.
American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada Records
Collection
Identifier: 99-18
Abstract
Included are minutes of the northern Nevada chapter, southern Nevada chapter, and state board meetings; administrative and issues correspondence; bylaws; organizational history; membership statistics; complaints and litigation files; subject files; and newspaper clippings.
Civil Rights in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: NC1023
Abstract
Paper prepared for the Civil Liberties Committee, Western States Democratic Conference which considers the Nevada population by race, the status of blacks in Las Vegas, the Equal Rights Commission, civil rights legislation, human rights conferences, and political morality.
Petition for civil rights legislation
Collection
Identifier: NC972
Abstract
Petition to President Lyndon Johnson and Nevada Senators Alan Bible and Howard Cannon urging the passage of civil rights legislation.
Warren L. d'Azevedo Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 0221
Abstract
This collection consists of materials and records developed and used by d'Azevedo in both his University and non-University (Nevada) involvement and interest in ethnic and minority issues, approximately 1959-1975. This included the University Human Relations Action Council (later Commission) which worked with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, UNR Black Student Union, Race Relations Center of Reno, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Nevada Intertribal Council.
Minutes and report of the Equal Rights Committee
Collection
Identifier: 98-43
Abstract
Included are minutes for meetings in January and February, 1969, and the committee's report to the Nevada Council for Civic Order Through Social Justice.
Henry Hardy Hogan Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: NC116
Abstract
Album of clippings about Nevada including history of the Reno Civil War veterans, inequality of blacks and whites, a mining story, letter to the state legislature about the location of the Insane Asylum, and poems of and obituary of Hogan and others.
Nevada Commission on Equal Rights of Citizens Records
Collection
Identifier: 93-19
Abstract
These materials, gathered by Commissioner Robert Gorrell, include minutes, reports, complaints, and correspondence.
Elmer R. Rusco Collection on Ethnicity and Race in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: 90-85
Abstract
These papers, a continuation of collection number 88-28, resulted from an ethnic studies class at UNR in the fall, 1988 semester. Included are reviews of movies, written papers, taped interviews and interview transcripts of the following ethnic or religious groups in Nevada: Afro-Americans, Japanese, Italians, Jews, Portuguese, Thais, Native Americans, Micronesians, and Greeks. For other related materials see collection 88-28 by the same author.
Elmer R. Rusco Collection on Ethnicity and Race in Nevada
Collection
Identifier: 88-28
Abstract
This collection consists of the working files by Rusco and Sue Fawn Chung as editors of the Nevada public affairs review (1987, #2) and by contributing authors of articles on ethnic minorities in Nevada. Ethnic groups include Basques, Blacks, Chinese, American Indians, Japanese, Jews, Koreans, Mexican Americans, and Yugoslavs.
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