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Guide to the Alice Key Collection

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The collection is retained in a single series and divided into folders by topic and format. Biographical Sketch: Alice Key was born in Kentucky around 1911. Her family moved to Southern California when she was still a small child. During her second year at UCLA, she was recruited as a chorus girl for the Cotton Club in Culver City, California, which began her long, successful dancing career. In 1955, Key came to Las Vegas as Public Relations Director for the Moulin Rouge Hotel and, also, co-hosted the “Talk of the Town,” the first all-black television show in Las Vegas. From 1966 to 1969, she was editor of the Las Vegas Voice, the city’s first black newspaper. Always active in civil rights, Key was the director of the Nevada Commission for the Rights of Women from 1967 to 1969, coordinator for the Nevada Careers Program for the Equal Opportunity Board of Clark County from 1969 to 1972 and, from 1980 to 1983, she served as director of the Las Vegas branch of the NAACP. In 198Collection consists of the papers of Alice Key, who came to Las Vegas in 1955 as Public Relations Director for the Moulin Rouge Hotel. Key had been a chorus girl in her early days in Los Angeles. Key was active in the Civil Rights movement in Las Vegas, and in a number of political and community service organizations such as the NAACP. Collection consists of clippings, photographs, correspondence, and videos regarding civil rights and entertainment, in...
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