Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Alice Key
Alice Key
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| Other authors / contributors: | Key, Alice, 1911-2010, interviewee.
Lesure, Jacques, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Jacques Lesure, interviewer.
Recorded Las Vegas, Nevada 2007 October 31.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Community activist and dancer Alice Key was born on March 18, 1911 in Henderson, Kentucky. She left the University of California, Los Angeles to work as a dancer. For five years, she performed at Harlem's Ubangi Club and other venues. In 1943, Key retired from dancing and started working in journalism and television. She co-hosted the first all-African American television talk show in Las Vegas and was active in fighting for civil rights in Nevada and California. She was public relations director of the Moulin Rouge, the first integrated hotel and casino in Las Vegas and was public relations manager for the Nevada Committee for the Rights of Women. Key worked for the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County, directed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Las Vegas branch, and served as Nevada's Deputy Commissioner of Labor. Key passed away on September 29, 2010 at age 99.
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