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Audio recording clip of interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee D. White, August 31, 2013

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Part of an interview with Greg McCurdy by Claytee White on August 31, 2013. McCurdy talks about one of his mentors, Herman Moody, the first African American police officer in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.So you're going to talk to me today about the first black person to join the police department in Las Vegas. So to say it that way...sometimes it's disputed if he was the first. But what he was specifically was the first one who lasted, with any tenure; meaning, he spent 31 years here to be exact, Herman Moody. Herman L. Moody started in 1946 with the old City of Las Vegas Police Department. I remember the stories where he would have to oftentimes work by himself without a partner. He didn't work in areas other than areas where blacks lived and/or played. Couldn't arrest white people back then at that time. Then, of course, as time progressed and the city started to grow and mature a bit, then he was able to work in other areas. But I could just envision him back in 1946-1947, a good-looking man out of the United States Navy, after having served in World War II and proud, loved his people, loved his family. So when I had talked to him about how he policed, he policed from a
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