Charles I. West
Medicine and a newspaper for the Westside
Las Vegas’s first Black physician and the founding publisher of the Las Vegas Voice.
Publishing a community’s record
UNLV’s newspaper history dates West’s launch of the Las Vegas Voice to October 1963. His work as a physician and civil-rights pioneer preceded and informed that publishing venture. [1]
Read the issues themselves
The digitized collection provides a route beyond later biographies into community reporting, advertisements, photographs and argument. West published the Voice until 1974; its subsequent history led to the Sentinel-Voice. [1]
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Black-and-white photograph of James McMillan, Charles West, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Monsignor Empey, circa 1962
Photograph from Marie and James B. McMillan Photograph Collection. Catalog date: Circa 1954–1962.
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Sources for this profile and starting points for further research. Access notes mark links we could not open directly during the October 3–4, 2026 checks. Historical accounts describe their own period; they do not necessarily describe current operations.
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Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice
The introduction dates Charles West’s Las Vegas Voice to October 1963. Individual newspaper issues are separately dated.