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■ Crews are drilling at the Stories by Rachel Crosby • Photos by Benjamin Hager • Las Vegas Review-Journal
water is drawn. 6A
still much work to be done: Flowers have yet to be planted, ***
paper-crane sculptures have yet to be installed. It has been just six months since a sniper on the Strip killed
But the plan is in place. 58 concertgoers and wounded hundreds more on the final
Everything is running according to schedule. night of the Route 91 Harvest festival.
And already, at this spot, it is once again possible for the ▶ SEE MEMORIALS 2AA
Tracey Duden is embraced by her husband, John, while a song that he wrote with his band, Pickleback
been intentional. 6A Shine, plays during the Route 91 candlelight vigil near Mandalay Bay on Sunday.
■ Notre Dame beat
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Opinion 5B World 8A N early 1960, Dr. James ers in the black community, sent couples out throughout
McMillan penned a letter gathered around a table at the city, and they tested that
to then-Las Vegas Mayor the Moulin Rouge and came they could gamble and go to
©2018 Oran Gragson demanding to a verbal agreement. shows wherever they want-
LAS VEGAS that the city integrate. “They decide, yes, the city ed.”
REVIEW-JOURNAL City officials and hotel is going to be integrated this That day marked a major
Volume 114, Number 2 Bizuayehu Tesfaye Review-Journal owners had two weeks to evening and that you will victory for the Las Vegas
Claytee White, director of the accept change as laid out be able to go out and test branch of the NAACP and
Oral History Research Center at by McMillan, the president this integration decree,” said the broader civil rights
UNLV Libraries, is interviewed of the local chapter of the Claytee White, director of the
on March 20. NAACP and the city’s first Oral History Research Center See MLK 7A
Commitment to King’s
work remains strong
Inspired activists ‘keep climbed a pole to snatch down the
Confederate flag at the South Caroli-
moving, in his name’ na statehouse in 2015. “In that way, I
absolutely feel that what we’re doing
is continuing in the legacy of Martin
By Errin Haines Whack Luther King.”
The Associated Press Even so, the problems persist. A poll
by the Associated Press-NORC Center
ATLANTA — Tyrone Brooks was 22 for Public Affairs Research found only
years old and 400 miles away, seek- 1 in 10 African-Americans think the
ing clues to an unsolved lynching as United States has achieved all or most
old as he was, when he got the news of the goals of the civil rights move-
that Martin Luther King Jr. was dead. ment. Among whites, only 35 percent
Stunned, Brooks dropped everything believe those goals have been at least
and drove to Memphis, crying all the mostly achieved.
way. “A lot of people across the country
The next day, King’s closest confi- see injustice or inequality as unfor-
dant, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, tunate, almost like a car accident,
told Brooks: “Tighten your belts and instead of unjust and something they
dry your tears. If you love Martin Lu- have to do something about,” said
ther King as you say you do, help me Rashad Robinson, 39, who uses King’s
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