The exhibit brings together archival material maintained by
both the Wiener-Rogers Law Library and UNLV’s Lied Library, including collections
of oral history interviews and historical photographs. The exhibit was developed and its display
coordinated by Andrew Martineau, Digital Services and Research Librarian at the
Wiener-Rogers Law Library. The exhibit would
not have been possible without the contributions of Professor Rachel Anderson,
who kindly loaned her Purposeful Spaces,
Living History banners and whose scholarship provided much of the source
material for the exhibit, and Claytee White, Director of the Oral History Center
at UNLV, who conducted many of the interviews referenced in the exhibit.
The Wiener-Rogers Law Library is the largest law library in
the State of Nevada. Its mission is to serve the William S. Boyd School of Law,
UNLV, and the state by providing access to law-related materials, supporting
the scholarship of students and faculty, and reaching out to the community to
share resources. Working with the Las Vegas Chapter of the
National Bar Association, Professor Anderson, and Ms. White, the Wiener-Rogers
Law Library has collected an archive of materials that relate to the
contributions of African-Americans to Nevada law and government and to the
history of civil rights in Nevada. That archive includes oral histories of a
number of prominent African-American jurists in the State. The Law Library is
committed to preserving all nature of materials that reflect Nevada history.
Andrew Martineau is a member of the law library faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law; he coordinates many of the law library’s digital initiatives and supports faculty and student scholarship.
