Eyeless on Campus: RSJ108--Journalism Challenge 005--Image as Type--UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO FALL 2018

Sunday, November 11, 2018

RSJ108--Journalism Challenge 005--Image as Type--UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO FALL 2018

JOURNALISM 108 PROF A WALSH UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FALL 2018

CHALLENGE 005 IMAGE AS TYPE

PART A Design

Part B: Documentation

Photo Objective?

     Reno in 1958: African-Americans were barred from downtown casinos excluding those on East Commercial Row such as the New China Club, Henry's Corner Bar and others along Lake Street. In 1958, African-American Ruby Lee Roberts was crowned "Keno Queen" in front of the New China Club. (Photo from Reno Gazette Journal, Sept 18, 2016)
     The first photo from the Reno Gazette Journal on Oct 04, 1958 shows Miss Roberts with New China Club owner Bill Fong on her left and gold medal winner Jesse Owens, who participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Hitler's Nazi Germany, on her right. The second photo is sepia toned, image opacity 44%. Clipping mask letters for "New China" were individually set. The glyph is TW Cen MT Condensed Extra Bold, [R,G,B = 30, 175, 157]; size=1000 pt, opacity 50%.

Does this project achieve results?

"If Arizona is the Alabama, Nevada is the Mississippi of the West and Utah is the Georgia," Dorea Pittman (NAACP) 1964

     Ethnic minorities had a place in Nevada history and it wasn't just on Commercial Row. Long gone are those casinos, with them went segregation as it existed in the Biggest Little City. Bill Fong, New China Club owner, was constantly criticized for alleged racial inequality, all of which were unfounded. He employed minorities in his casino when they weren't allowed to work in the white casinos around the corner on Virginia Street. This small part of northern Nevada history has many inequality chapters, this is just one of them.

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RED FLAG
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Red Flag: The U.S.-Japan Security Pact of 1960
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Part and parcel to how it all unfolded had to do with certain ambiguous positions by the two nations coupled with the American public not totally informed of the agreement. The situation was quite different in Japan. (09 March 2025)

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BORDERLANDS
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