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Nevada Yesterdays is written by UNLV history professor, Michael Green, and is supported by Nevada Humanities
The first time I served in the legislature in 1969, I got to be in the old state capitol building. The new one opened in 1971. So the new one is turning fifty. But the old one is turning one hundred and fifty, and that’s the story we want to tell you today.
When Carson City became the territorial capital in 1861, it was mainly because of local merchant Abe Curry. He gave the legislature space to meet in his hotel. He also gave the state ten acres or four city blocks in the middle of town where an actual government building would go. But it didn’t happen right after Nevada became a state in 1864. The 1869 state legislature finally passed a bill to provide one hundred thousand dollars to construct a state capitol. A board chose the lowest bid, but the costs ran to about one hundred and seventy thousand. And that was even with the sandstone for the construction comin
/PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018 and 2019 ISS.
Aline Elizabeth Black was born in Norfolk on March 23, 1906, the only daughter and third of four children of Charles Black and Ida Black. She attended the local public schools and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. In 1924, with a temporary teaching certificate, she began working in the Norfolk public school system as a science instructor. Black graduated from Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute (later Virginia State University) in 1926 and continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, enrolling in 1931 and receiving an MS in 1935.
As an African American, Black received a substantially smaller salary than a comparably qualified white teacher. Racial disparity in salaries had been a long-standing grievance of the Norfolk Teachers Association and the Virginia State Teachers Association, which together enlisted the cooperation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to challenge the double standard as a violation
/PRNewswire/ Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm rated Top 50 in the 2018 and 2019 ISS.
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