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The Elmer R. Rusco Collection on Ethnicity and Race in Nevada (1964-1972) contains correspondence, court cases, employment information, and research materials compiled by Rusco for a book he was writing on race relations in Nevada.
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The Elmer R. Rusco Collection on Ethnicity and Race in Nevada (1964- to 1972) contains correspondence, court cases, employment information, and research materials compiled by Rusco for a book he was writing on race relations in Nevada. Materials include Clark County School District plans for integration, court cases and staff training mannuals concerned with integration from 1968 through 1972. The collection also contains information on welfare, black employment, juvenile delinquency, race relations, poverty, and the Nevada Catholic Welfare Bureau. There is correspondence between Rusco and Robert Fahey, who was the director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau's Policy Action Leadership (PAL) as well as the assistant director of Catholic Community Welfare. The collection also contains newspaper clippings, court cases, and correspondence regarding discrimination within the Local 357 Electrical Union as well as detailed reports of the numbers of minorities working at major hotels in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See xlink:href="http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/research_and_services/reproductions" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="Reproductions and Use"> Reproductions and Use
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Materials are arranged by topic.
Biographical / Historical Note
Elmer R. Rusco received his academic training in Political Science. He attended the University of Kansas, receiving his B.A. in 1951, and his M.A. in 1952. He continued his schooling at the University of California, Berkeley, earning his Ph.D. in 1960. Dr. Rusco taught Political Science as an Assistant Professor at Parsons College and at the University of Nevada, Reno starting in 1963. In 1965, he joined the Bureau of Governmental Research at the University of Nevada, Reno, serving as the Assistant Director. He became the Director of the Bureau in 1967.
Dr. Rusco's areas of specialization were political theory, American politics, and voting behavior, and he published numerous articles and books focusing on these topics. He held memberships in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Sigma Alpha, American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, and the American Association of University Professors.
His doctoral dissertation entitled, "Machine Politics, California Model: Arthur H. Samish and the Alcoholic Beverage Industry" won the annual award of Western Political Science Association in 1961. He received a grant from the Eagleton Institute of Politics in 1961, and from the Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada in 1964 and 1965.
Other activities included Dr. Rusco's Legislative Internship with the California Assembly, 1960-1961, membership on the University of Nevada Policy Committee on Academic Standards, 1964-1966, and membership on the Ad Hoc Executive Board of the Center for Western North American Studies.
Preferred Citation
Elmer R. Rusco Collection on Ethnicity and Race in Nevada, 1964-1972. MS-00196. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Acquisition Note
Materials were donated in 1976 by Elmer Rusco; accession numbers T123 and, 76-56.
Processing Note
Material was processed in 1996 by Caryll Batt Dziedziak. In 2016, Joyce Moore entered the collection information into ArchivesSpace. In 2018, as part of an archival backlog elimination project, Sarah Jones revised the collection description to bring it into compliance with current professional standards.