Moulin Rouge meeting for integration in Las Vegas.

Black History Month: A Nevada Retrospective

UNLV director of oral history Claytee White shares Nevada’s diverse history, telling us why ‘Nevada Means Home’ for so many.

 March 1960 meeting at the Moulin Rouge Hotel Coffee Shop to end segregation on the Las Vegas Strip. (UNLV Special Collections and Archives)

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