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Storming Caesar's Palace

How Vegas activist Ruby Duncan's grassroots movement of moms fought for basic income guarantee.

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Ruby Duncan standing and addressing group, with Jane Fonda seated and listening on the eve of the Strip march in 1971. (Images or Footage used under license from Shutterstock.com / Shutterstock.com)

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Ralph Abernathy, Ruby Duncan, and George Wiley hand in hand in the Operation Nevada crowd, the Stardust Hotel behind them. (Frances Fox Piven Collection/Papers, Smith College Special Collections / Frances Fox Piven Collection/Papers, Smith College Special Collections)

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Portion of the Operation Nevada crowd marching down the Vegas Strip. Ruby Duncan walks beside Ralph Abernathy, George Wiley is also featured. (Clinton Wright Collection / Clinton Wright Collection)

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Welfare rights leaders (including Johnnie Tillmon and Beulah Sanders) put their hands together, celebrating passage of their National Plan of Action item at the First National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. (Diana Mara Henry Photography / Diana Mara Henry Photography)

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Ruby Duncan holds the hands of two children on a sunny driveway. (Courtesy Ruby Duncan / Courtesy Ruby Duncan)

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Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Director/Producer (Johnathan Lewis / Johnathan Lewis)