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Audio clip from interview with Ruby Amie-Pilot, August 7, 2012

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Part of an interview with Ruby Amie-Pilot on August 7, 2012. In this clip Amie-Pilot talks about plans to picket Floyd Patterson fight at the Las Vegas Convention Center, because blacks not allowed to attend.How many people would be at a meeting? Oh, it would be 25 or 30 people at least. We would try to get as many as we could to the meetings and then we would come back to the community to rally support because everybody didn't have a car to drive out there. And I truly believe a lot of our meetings we had to try to keep them low key because of the strategizing you're doing because of being sabotaged in some of your things. Because one incident, when we were planning to picket the fight of Floyd Patterson at the Las Vegas Convention Center, which was just a rotunda at that time; we were planning to picket that event because blacks was not allowed. This would have been one way of getting national attention because here you have all of these tourists coming in here and they really were not aware of the prejudice that went on. I think they even got the idea that the blacks that worked within the hotels probably lived there because they knew nothing about the Westside. So this was o
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