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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant

In the early morning of July 31, 1990, Terri Siddoway left her apartment and journeyed toward a nearby convenience store

Thirty years ago, seeking to address “the civil unrest in Las Vegas” triggered by decades-long discrimination against Black people throughout

In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

By the mid-twentieth century, Las Vegas’ reputation as the “Mississippi of the West” was well-earned. As Black Americans from the