<p>Alan Bible served Nevada for 20 years in the U.S. Senate, from 1954 to 1974. A protege of Pat McCarran's, Bible believed that "all politics is local" and that the needs of his constituents superseded all other political or economic considerations. He often considered himself to be an ambassador for the Silver State and had a profound impact on land-use policy. Bible used the cloakrooms of the Senate halls to his advantage, quietly manipulating legislation that brought millions of dollars to Nevada for every conceivable project that would bolster the economy.</p>

Senator Alan Bible And The Politics Of The New West (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Elliott, Gary E.

Historical

University of Nevada Press

Fighting Back is James B. McMillan's memoir of a life spent fighting racial discrimination in its many forms, and beating it. This is no plaintive litany of injustices: McMillan's style is to confront problems directly, deal with them, and move on. His story is personal, but it is also representative of the experiences of thousands of other African-Americans who stood and fought to achieve equality under the law. In 1955 McMillan moved his family to Las Vegas. He liked the place from the beginning - it was a twenty-four hour town, with lots of live entertainment, gambling, sunshine, and money - but he encountered the same type of racial discrimination there that he had lived with all of his life. He would not put up with it. Within a year of his arrival he was speaking out and attacking segregation in Las Vegas with such passion and vehemence that he was elected president of the local branch of the NAACP. Under his leadership, and following the example of civil rights activists in the South, the branch was soon taking direct, confrontational action to end overt segregation on the Las Vegas Strip; and in 1960, end it they did, in dramatic and surprising fashion. McMillan's story does not end with the desegregation of the Strip; he has continued to combat racism in all its guises, with considerable success. Following a penetrating and provocative analysis of affirmative action, bussing, the Black Muslims, and other current civil rights controversies, Fighting Back concludes with McMillan and his wife Marie reflecting on the hazards and rewards of their interracial marriage.

Fighting Back: A Life in the Struggle for Civil Rights

History

King, R. T.

McMIllan, James B.

Americas

Univ of Nevada Oral History

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