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The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas - A History of the First Racially Integrated Hotel-casino (Paperback)
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The Moulin Rouge and Black Rights in Las Vegas - A History of the First Racially Integrated Hotel-casino (Paperback)
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The Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino is easily overlooked by
modern-day visitors to the Las Vegas strip. Originally opened in
May 1955, it quickly rose in popularity as the city's first
racially-integrated hotel and casino. Sammy Davis Jr., Louis
Armstrong, and other A-list black singers and musicians performed
at the Moulin Rouge on a regular basis, and for once they were
allowed to spend the night in the same Las Vegas hotel where they
performed. Sadly, the Moulin Rouge fell from fame almost as quickly
as it had risen, closing its doors in November of 1955 and filing
for bankruptcy only a month later. For the next several decades,
the Moulin Rouge stood largely abandoned, until a devastating May
2003 fire left the hotel's signature marquee standing sad but stoic
in front of the fenced-in remains of the historic hotel.This book
is an original and comprehensive work of scholarship on the history
of the Moulin Rouge, explaining the important role that the
hotel-casino played in early desegregation efforts in Las Vegas. It
addresses the many contributions that the Moulin Rouge made in
transforming Las Vegas into a truly cosmopolitan city, while
describing the painful journey that blacks in Las Vegas have taken
in an effort to achieve equal rights from the Jim Crow era to the
present day. With the Moulin Rouge as the backdrop, it provides an
overall analysis of the evolution of race-relations in Las Vegas,
including a detailed account of the landmark desegregation
agreement which was made at a 1960 meeting between Las Vegas hotel
owners, black leaders, and government officials - at the
then-closed Moulin Rouge. Finally, it examines recent efforts to
rebuild and renovate the historic establishment.
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