Transcript of interview with Brenda Mason by Claytee D. White, December 20, 2006
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Interview with Brenda Mason conducted by Claytee D. White on December 20, 2006. After moving to Las Vegas in 1960, Mason graduated from Western High School. Beginning in 1974, she served two terms on the Board of Regents.An Interview with Brenda Mason An Oral History Conducted by Claytee D. White The UNLV @ Fifty Oral History Project Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries University of Nevada Las Vegas 2007 ©UNLV@ FIFTY Oral History Project University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2007 Produced by: The Oral History Research Center at UNLV - University Libraries Project Director: Claytee D. White Coordinator and Interviewer for Math and Sciences: Dr. David Emerson Project Editor: Gloria Homol Interviewers and Project Assistants: Suzanne Becker, Andres Moses, Laura Plowman, Emily Powers, Shirley Emerson, Mary K. Keiser Lisa Gioia-Acres ii Recorded interviews and transcripts composing the UNLV @ Fifty Oral History Project have been made possible through the generosity of CSUN (grant initiated, presented, and shepherded through the CSUN political process by Andres Moses) and the Libraries Advisory Board. Lied Library provided a wide variety of administrative services and the Special CoBrenda Mason was born in Texas and moved to Las Vegas around 1960. Her extended family had also left Texas and settled here as a result of pressure from the KKK. Some of her early memories of attending integrated schools in Las Vegas including serving on a panel that discussed the impact of integration in the schools. Brenda has many memories of Vegas in the 1960s,...
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