Archives, 1976-1996.

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Archives, 1976-1996.

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Includes administrative records of the project, grant proposals and reports, correspondence, lists of topics and people to be included in the project exhibit and publications, and newspaper clippings and publications about blacks in Nevada and in the United States. The Nevada Black History Project was organized in 1990 to bring to light the history of the Black presence in Nevada. It was co-sponsored by the Northern Nevada Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Committee and the Northern Nevada Black Cultural Awareness Society. Dr. Elmer Rusco was the project director. Products included a traveling exhibit with an historical thrust; a videotape on the subject; a publication, Nevada Black history: yesterday and today, 1992 and 1997 which focused on the achievements of contemporary Blacks in Nevada; and an archive of photographs.

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center

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Rusco, Elmer R.

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Elmer R. Rusco received his academic training in political science. He attended the University of Kansas, receiving his B.A. in 1951, and his M.A. in 1952. He continued his schooling at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. in 1960. His doctoral dissertation entitled, Machine politics, California model : Arthur H. Samish and the alcoholic industry won the annual award of Western Political Science Association for 1961. He received a grant from the Eagleton Institute of Politic...

Nevada Black History Project.

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