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Sawyer: An Activist in the Governor’s Mansion (Reno: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1993); Rusco, “Civil Rights in Hawthorne,” 35–73. See also Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005). 9. A. D. Hopkins, “Fighting Racism: James B. McMillan,” in Hopkins and Evans, eds., The First 100, 143–46; K. J. Evans, “Mayor Who Made His Mark: Oran Gragson,” in ibid., 146–47; Hopkins, “Breaking the Color Line: Bob Bailey,” ibid., 151–52; Hopkins, “Fighting the Power: Charles Kellar,” ibid., 153–54; Evans, “Good Citizen Ralph: Ralph Denton,” ibid., 155–56; Hopkins, “Grant Sawyer: The Hang-Tough Governor,” ibid., 148–50; Earnest N. Bracey, “Ruby Duncan, Operation Life, and Welfare Rights in Nevada,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 44, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 133–46; Claytee White, “‘Eight Dollars a Day and Working in the Shade’: An Oral History of African American Migrant Women in the Las Vegas Gaming Industry,” in African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000, ed. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), 276–91; James B. McMillan, Gary E. Elliott, and R. T. King, Fighting Back: A Life in the Struggle for Civil Rights (Reno: University of Nevada Oral History Program, 1997); Gary E. Elliott, “James B. McMillan: The Pursuit of Equality,” in Davies, ed., The Maverick Spirit, 44–57. 10. Wilson, Coughtry, and King, Woodrow Wilson; McMillan, Elliott, and King, Fighting Back, especially 77–116; Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, 173–202; Sawyer, Elliott, and King, Hang Tough!; Denton and Green, A Liberal Conscience; Richard E. Lingenfelter and Karen Rix Gash, The Newspapers of Nevada: A History and Bibliography, 1854–1979 (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984), 134, 209. 11. Numerous works deal with the civil rights movement and its evolution . See, for example, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). On Nevada in this period, see Sawyer, Elliott, and King, Hang Tough!, 133–39; Denton and Green, A Liberal Conscience, 261–98. 12. On fair housing, see especially Joseph N. Crowley, “Race and Residence: The Politics of Open Housing in Nevada,” in Eleanore Bushnell, ed., Sagebrush and Neon: Studies in Nevada Politics (Reno: Bureau of Governmental Research, 1973), 55–74. On welfare rights, see Annelise Orleck, Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005). 13. See generally Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam Books, 1987); David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994). 14. Hopkins, “Fighting the Power: Charles Kellar,” in Hopkins and Evans, 324 Notes to Pages 235–37 eds., The First 100, 153–54; Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 10, 2002; Las Vegas Sun, June 14, 1999; Leslie B. Gray, “Nevada Beginnings in Civil Rights: A Memoir,” in Rusco and Chung, eds., Nevada Public Affairs Review, 87–88. Because Nevada had a one-year residency requirement before taking the bar, Kellar, to make a living, ended up becoming Nevada’s first licensed African American real estate broker. 15. Hopkins, “Kellar,” in Hopkins and Evans, eds., The First 100, 153–54; Hopkins, “Al Bramlet: The Organizer,” in ibid., 196–97; Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 10, 2002; Jeffrey J. Sallaz, “Civil Rights and Employment Equity in Las Vegas: The Failed Enforcement of the Casino Consent Decree, 1971–1986” (Article accepted for publication in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, in author’s possession); Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, 189–91. 16. Las Vegas Sun, February 15, 1969; November 17, 2000. 17. Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, 191. 18. Ibid., 191–94. See also Mike Davis, “The Racial Cauldron,” in Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis, eds., The Grit beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 260–67; Robert E. Parker, “The Social Costs of Rapid Urbanization in Southern Nevada,” in ibid., 126–44; Nefertiti Makenta, “A View from West Las Vegas,” in The Real Las Vegas: Life beyond the Strip, ed. David Littlejohn (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 109–31. 19. Bureau of Governmental Research Newsletter, University of Nevada, Reno 12, no. 4 (December 1973): 1–2. Moehring, Resort City in the Sunbelt, deals with the history of local schools at various points throughout the book. See also Nevada State Retired Teachers Association, Inside Nevada Schools: A Challenge...

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