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Goynes, Theron
Theron Goynes was born August 20, 1929 in Texarkana, Texas. He attended college at Texas A & M University, was in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), served in the United States Air Force, and then became an educator. Goynes met his future wife, Naomi Jackson, in Nashville, Arkansas where they were both young teachers in 1956.
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Bolden, Larry, 1937-2000
The first African American police officer to attain the rank of Deputy Chief of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Bolden joined the Las Vegas Police Department at 21 when the department had just three black officers. Bolden, Herman Moody and Isadore Washington patrolled predominantly black West Las Vegas. He served Las Vegas as a police officer for 33 years before he retired in 1991.
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Washington, Isadore
Isadore Washington was born in Tallulah, Louisiana, the son of Isadore Washington, Sr., and Destelle Washington. His father came out to Las Vegas, Nevada in the 1930s to work on Hoover Dam, and the family followed in 1942 when Isadore was eight years old. His mother worked at the El Rancho and Last Frontier Hotels, the Shaw Apartments and Harrison boarding house on the Westside where black entertainers were expected to stay. Washington recalls playing with Wayne Newton when they were children and life on the Westside where he attended the Westside School.
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