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Skip to main content. Main Menu Utility Menu Search. September 29, Deweyless Libraries — Maricopa County, Ariz. Concrete Program — City of Darien, Ill. She was also part of an advocacy group that fought to save Bonneville School. Although the efforts to save the school were to no avail, she and her fellow residents made their opinions well known. She has coordinated several cleanups of the river to make it more free of debris and floatable for canoeists.

Sanger has a knack for skillfully bringing together agencies, civic groups, business persons, residents and government to accomplish a common goal. Over the past several years, ICCU employees have served as active committee members and helped landscape several homes NeighborWorks Pocatello has constructed.

Over the summer months, twelve residents living in the central neighborhoods were recognized with Curb Appeal Awards for their outstanding efforts with landscaping of their properties. Several of the winners were in attendance where they received award plaques. The Annual meeting concluded with the drawing of some door prizes, as well as the final Spruce up the Neighborhood raffle drawing.

Nominations are now open for Historic Westside residents who may be added to the honorees whose stories are told at the park. Nominations for will be accepted through Sunday, Dec.

Main St. Submit a nomination. As the Historic Westside continues to grow and change, as all things do, it becomes immensely important for us to learn about - respect - and engage with the stories and experiences of those who came before us.

To remember and celebrate those who laid the foundation and tended to the soil that will allow this community to grow well into the future. The Westside now has a cemented monument to celebrate and honor the legacy of a historic and proud community. The park includes plaques with historic information on honorees, as well as public art throughout. There is also a playground, benches and seating areas. His successes resulted in his appointment, by then-President George H.

Bush, as the first Presidential appointee from Nevada to serve as associate director of the Minority Development Business Agency. Anna Bailey danced at the Moulin Rouge in the first line of African-American dancers in the city of Las Vegas and in the late s she became the first African-American dancer on the Strip.

A dedicated educator, Barber was an innovative elementary school principal, community activist, and Clark County School District Trustee who advocated for equity and accessibility for all. Bolden served as deputy chief for technical services for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, and was the first African-American officer to achieve that rank with the organization. In , Canty led a strike of culinary workers from New Frontier Hotel-Casino to protest labor conditions. The strike lasted for more than six years, which was the longest labor strike in American History.

One of the most honored and respected physicians in Nevada, Dr. Barbara Crear worked the front office of Dr. Crear's practice and was a substitute teacher with the Clark County School District while being active in Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority and community service.

She co-founded Operation Life in to promote welfare reform and to improve the lives of those who lived in West Las Vegas. She served as the executive director of Operation Life from its inception in until Operation Life brought a medical clinic, a library, housing and more to West Las Vegas.

After a year career with the Clark County School District, including serving as the first African-American principal in Nevada, the first school to be built in West Las Vegas in 27 years was named after him in honor of his contributions to education and the community.

Howell was the first black person to live and own land as a rancher and half owner of The Springs Ranch which is now the Springs Preserve 1. Among the pioneers who contributed to early Las Vegas in several black people began to make their way to the new town.

Some of the more prominent families and individuals included the Lowes, J. Johnson, A. Mitchells, Tom Harris and Howard Washington. Most black people at the time, much like future migration periods, came to Las Vegas in search of work, particularly on the new railroad.

Other black people that did not work on the railroad or in related jobs owned and operated successful businesses such as small food venues, bars, a shoe shine stand, barbershop and boarding houses.

Black people owned a significant amount of land in the downtown area before being forced to relocate. McWilliams was originally hired by Helen J. Stewart, a prominent landowner who was preparing to sell her land to Sen.

William Clark in , to survey approximately 2,fenced-acres for sale to the S. L Railroad. African Americans did not find an immediately welcoming environment in McWilliams Townsite. Many of the original residents had already made their way across the tracks to the East by the time black people were pushed there in the late s into the early 30s, however those that remained protested the arrival of the new black residents who had to petition the city to be allowed to move into the area.

It is important to note that the land on which the city we live in, is and was, the land and indigenous home of the Nuwuvi Southern Paiute Peoples. In addition, the area we call the Westside also had small communities of Mexican Americans as well as Japanese Americans in an area that was to be wiped out by the construction of Interstate It is listed for its Period of Significance for its history affiliated with pre-historic indigenous cultures through non-native exploration and settlement times.

Gay was the first African-American to work in an executive capacity of a major hotel casino when hired as Director of Communications at the Sands in Goynes was a teacher and later an administrator in the Clark County School District, and was a member of the Economic Opportunity Board. Upon passing the bar, Judge Guy became recognized as many African American firsts - deputy district attorney in Clark County, chief deputy district attorney, and state judge when he was appointed to the bench.

She was a community activist and an advocate for the Westside Federal Credit Union. Wilson to raise livestock and plant fruit trees on acres called the Spring Rancho. Prior to , when the Strip was still segregated, Johnson and her friends fought against discrimination by staging protests.

When Blacks were only allowed to live west of the tracks, Johnson purchased property way outside of the city in Paradise Township and started a small ranch when African-American organizations held meetings and celebrations. Charles Kellar arrived in Las Vegas as an attorney, but had to fight to be admitted to the State Bar of Nevada once he had passed the exam. He advocated for equality in education and employment throughout his career.

Kellar filed many lawsuits, including one that ultimately led to the desegregation of the Clark County School District. He actively participated in formulating the consent decree of that opened 12 percent of hotel casino jobs in many categories to Blacks. She and her family operated the Moulin Rouge for several years in the s and helped secure its listing on National Register of Historic Places. From the founding of the first black church, Zion Methodist, which was founded in on the corner of what is now Casino Center Boulevard and Ogden Avenue, places of worship have been a spiritual, social and communal backbone of the Historic West Las Vegas community.

Zion Methodist was the first black church and first Protestant church in Las Vegas. Zion Methodist was founded as a non-denominational community church.

In the late s the original church was moved by truck across the tracks to a plot of land on G Street and Washington Avenue. It was built in Pilgrim was followed by Second Baptist Church and St.