Clyde Carson Cox

--Clyde Carson Cox was born in Mexia, Texas in 1911.  He received his elementary and high school education in Georgia and Oklahoma.  At the age of 15 he became interested in the ministry and devoted his entire life to that work.  Cox received a B.Th. degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta and graduated in 1956 with a doctor of philosophy degree from Trinity Hall College and Seminary in Springfield, Illinois.

--Selected as bishop for his church, Mr. Cox had supervisory duties in California as well as Nevada.  In 1941, Mr. Cox, his wife, Sweet T. Givens, and a daughter moved to Las Vegas.  He was named pastor of the local church, which he first built on F Street.  The first service consisted of six members and grew to a congregation of more than 450 members.

--For twenty-eight years, Mr. Cox was leading figure in the black community.  He initially provided West Las Vegas resident a community information source, mail service, employment information, and a water service as the result of the new church.

--In 1966, he was named "Man of the Year" by the Religious Workers Guild.  His church grew to a total of 18 churches in Nevada.  Clyde Carson Cox was named to the Las Vegas City Planning Board, the Juvenile Justice Commission, and the school district's committee of 100 on Integration.  Governor Grant Sawyer commissioned him a general in the Battle Born Battalion of Nevada Volunteers.

--Mr. Cox died in 1969, but his leadership continues to touch people of all races and creeds in our state.  Not only was his spiritual devation to his congregation evident, but also his commitment to public education for all.

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