Abstract
The Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories contains audio interviews and brief transcripts that focus on welfare, family, and women's issues in Nevada from 1970 to 1974. Gregory interviewed Nevada residents including Maya Miller, Ruby Duncan, and Mary Wesley, who described their lives during the anti-poverty and women's rights campaigns in the early 1970s. The collection documents views on welfare; the Equal Rights Amendment; race, discrimination, and civil rights; and political campaigns.
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Scope and Contents Note
The Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories contains audio interviews and brief transcripts that focus on welfare, family, and women's issues in Nevada from 1970 to 1974. Gregory interviewed Nevada residents including Maya Miller, Nancy Gomes, Ruby Duncan, and Harriet Trudell, who described their lives during the anti-poverty and women's rights campaigns in the early 1970s. The collection documents views on welfare; the Equal Rights Amendment; race, discrimination, and civil rights; and political campaigns. Each interview includes an audio recording, a brief transcript, and basic information about the interviewee.
Access Note
Collection is open for research. Collection is open for research. Arrangements must be made in advance to access digital files; please contact UNLV Special Collections and Archives for additional information.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Some transcripts do not exist in final form, therefore any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. This interview includes multiple interviewees. Release forms are not on file from each interviewee. The interview is accessible onsite only, and researchers must seek permission from the interviewee or heirs for quotation, reproduction, or publication. Please contact special.collections@unlv.edu for further information.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged by format.
Biographical / Historical Note
Mollie Gregory is a filmmaker and writer from Los Angeles, California. After graduating from the Cinema School of New York University with bachelor's and master's degrees, she began her career as a documentary film writer and producer. Her earlier works focused on poverty and women's issues, including Songs from the Fourth World, Off the Edge, Welfare: Exploding the Myths, and Cities are for People.
Gregory also held positions in several organizations, including President of Women in Film, Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, and Novelists West (PEN); the International Writers Organization; and vice president of the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers. Gregory was also a member of Writers Guild of America and a trustee for the Women in Film Foundation.
Gregory taught film at the University of Southern California, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Northridge, and focuses on screenwriting, documentary film writing, and production. In the early 1970s, she conducted a series of interviews with Nevada residents and politicians as part of her documentary film work. Those interviews are represented in this collection.
Preferred Citation
Mollie Gregory Collection of Oral Histories, 1970-1974. MS-00516. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1xg7z
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 2006 by Mollie Gregory; accession number 2006-018.
Processing Note
Materials were processed by Crystal Jackson of the Women's Research Institute of Nevada in 2006 and Kelli Brockschmidt in 2007. The interviews have been transferred from the original audio reels to compact discs. In 2014, as part of a legacy finding aid conversion project, Lindsay Oden revised and enhanced the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards. Subsequently Lindsay Oden entered the data into ArchivesSpace. In 2023, Sarah Jones ingested the interview files off optical discs and updated the finding aid. Information provided by a patron who viewed several films was included in the description as well.