UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
We believe everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that makes space for us all.
MessageSeeing/Seen
- September 24, 2021 - February 26, 2022
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Center Gallery -
On Site Exhibition
Ruby Duncan
ca. 1970s
North Las Vegas Library Collection
UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives
“We need to have something to offer our people. Come together every so often — organizing that’s how we got out.”
Activist, organizer of the 1972 march, shutting down the Las Vegas Strip and as a result brought the Federal Food Stamps Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children (WIC) to poor people throughout the state of Nevada.
- Created: c. 1970