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Years Before Sammy Davis, Josephine Baker Was Desegregating Vegas Casinosnew

It seems almost like a fairy tale in which a lone black woman—before the civil rights movement, before the integrated Rat Pack appeared on the Strip, even before the Voting Rights Act—stood against the powers that were in Vegas in 1952 and won.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Richard Abowitz  |  02-19-2009  |  Race & Class

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