Annelise Orleck

Dr. Orleck was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where you can travel around the world without ever venturing more than a few miles from home. Brooklyn’s amazing assortment of cultures sparked her interest in the study of history and ethnicity which continues to this day. Her book Storming Caesar’s Palace traces the lives of nine African-American women born in the Mississippi Delta who became hotel maids, union activists and later welfare rights activists in, of all places, Las Vegas, Nevada.