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Transcript of an Interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White, April 19 and 20, 2013

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Interview with Simeon Holloway by Claytee D. White on April 19 and 20, 2013. Holloway was a member of the first all-black Navy band in the 1940s. He moved to Las Vegas in 1985 and has been active in music and land investment.An Interview with Simeon Holloway An Oral History Conducted by Claytee D. White African American Collaborative Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries University of Nevada Las Vegas ©African Americans in Las Vegas: A Collaborative Oral History Project University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2012 COMMUNITY PARTNERS Henderson Libraries Las Vegas Clark County Public Libraries Oral History Research Center at UNLV Libraries University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries Wiener-Rogers Law Library at William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas Las Vegas National Bar Association Vegas PBS Clark County Museum Produced by: The Oral History Research Center at UNLV - University Libraries Director: Claytee D. White Project Manager: Barbara Tabach Transcriber: Kristin Hicks Interviewers, Editors and Project Assistants: Barbara Tabach, Claytee D. White, B. Leon Green, John Grygo, and Delores Brownlee, Melissa Robinson. ii The recorded interview and transcript havAs many young men in 1939 Gary, Indiana did, Simeon Holloway graduated from high school and went to work at the steel mill. This was not an option he liked and enlisted in the Navy just at the outbreak of World War II. Adapting his musicality he was chosen for the Navy's first all-black band, the B-1s, the existence of which was denied for decades....
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