Dekkers resides on the Strip in this book and sidesteps the history of Fremont Street and downtown Las Vegas — or anywhere else in the Vegas metropolitan area. Even his foreword notes ...

Although segregation in Las Vegas ended in 1960, UNLV Associate Professor Tyler Parry says that discrimination, racism and ...

This particular day, people were calling to get their hands on a piece of local history ... In the 1960s, West Las Vegas schools had enrollments of more than 95 percent African American ...