The Moulin Rouge

Opened 1955  ·  Card no. 9572

The first racially integrated casino in Nevada, in a town where Black performers headlined the Strip and could not sleep in the hotels that billed them. Open barely six months. Five years later the agreement that desegregated Las Vegas was signed inside it.

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