AN INDEPENDENT LAS VEGAS JOURNALTHE PEOPLE FILES
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TRAVEL & TECHNOLOGY

Hannah M. Brown

Airline management and local enterprise

An airline manager and Urban Chamber leader whose career links tourism’s transport system with local business opportunity.

Period explored: 1960s–2000sResort Revolution · Next Generation2 reading-room sourcesReviewed October 3, 2026
01 / THE STORY

A career in aviation

The City of Las Vegas’s honoree biography identifies Brown as the first Black woman station manager for Western and Delta. Her later work included a regional customer-service leadership role. [2]

02 / THE STORY

The business community’s archive

Brown became Urban Chamber of Commerce president in 1999. UNLV’s papers preserve records of her aviation career, civic leadership and recognition, providing a starting point for deeper research into both parts of that story. [2] [1]

THE CHRONOLOGY

Key dates

  1. 1999

    Becomes Urban Chamber president. [2]

FOLLOW THE CONNECTIONS

People in the same story

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FROM ARGENT’S COLLECTION

In the archive

7 entries about associated places, not necessarily this person in the saved collection.

THE READING ROOM

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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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    UNLV Special Collections · Collection guide · MS-01214

    Hannah Brown PapersPeople: Hannah M. Brown

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