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What if Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas and NYC

What if Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas and NYC. Ruby Duncan, Tallulah County Fair 1949. Emma Stampley , Vicksburg, Mississippi lumber mill 1966. Housing for black war workers Las Vegas 1942. Housing conditions West Las Vegas 1962. Housing in West Las Vegas early 1960s.

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What if Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas and NYC

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  1. What if Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas and NYC

  2. Ruby Duncan, Tallulah County Fair 1949

  3. Emma Stampley, Vicksburg, Mississippi lumber mill 1966

  4. Housing for black war workers Las Vegas 1942

  5. Housing conditions West Las Vegas 1962

  6. Housing in West Las Vegas early 1960s

  7. Very few houses in West Las Vegas had indoor plumbing into the early 1960s.

  8. Johnnie Tillmon addresses the 1968 March on Washington, stressing “Mother Power.” George Wiley and Ethel Kennedy stand behind her. Washington, D.C.

  9. Welfare mother Sylvia Hunt becomes one of 70 mothers and children who move into NYC Human Resources Administration office when the welfare hotel where they had been housed is declared unsafe and unsanitary

  10. George Wiley, Jane Fonda, Dave Dellinger, Ruby Duncan and Rev. Ralph Abernathy announce a march on the Las Vegas Strip to draw attention to the damage caused families by 1971 welfare cuts

  11. Welfare mothers from Nevada, California, Minnesota and other states march on the Strip to protest welfare cuts 1971

  12. George Wiley, Johnnie Tillmon of National Welfare Rights Organizationjoin Ruby Duncan before the 1971Las Vegas march

  13. Second March on the Strip, March 14, 1971

  14. After the marches, the community forms Operation Life. With sweat equity, volunteer donations and federal grants they rehab an abandoned hotel and open the community’s first medical clinic.

  15. AlversaBeals welcomes visitors to the new Operation Life clinic, the first medical facility on the West Side of Las Vegas

  16. Public Health Service physicians examine children Operation Life clinic

  17. Operation Life clinic nurse examines child

  18. The Operation Life clinic health outreach team, 1973, and the station wagon they used to pick up children and bring them for health screenings.

  19. Ruby Duncan and Coretta Scott King testify for the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill, U.S. Capitol, 1976

  20. Operation Life becomes the only Title VII Community Development Corporation run by and for poor women of color

  21. Roslyn Carter and Ruby Duncan confer on the President’s Commission on Families

  22. A meeting of the Operation Life Executive Board, 1978

  23. Waiting Room at the Operation Life clinic, 1978

  24. In addition to health are, Operation Life won grants to build housing, open a library, renovate a swimming pool and weatherize and install solar panels on poor people’s homes,

  25. The Operation Life coalition in 2005

  26. The Operation Life coalition today

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