On March 7, Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) gave a lecture at the . Parry examined the history of the "Great Migration" to the Las Vegas Valley, in which thousands of African Americans moved to Southern Nevada for economic opportunity and to escape segregation and violence in the U.S. South. He also examined how this migration bolstered the civil rights movement in Southern Nevada as African Americans challenged racist practices throughout Las Vegas in the mid-twentieth century
