Race and the Houston police department, 1930-1990: a change did come
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1. Verfasser: Watson, Dwight (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station, Tex. Texas A & M University Press c2005
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University no. 102
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references p. ([179]-197) and index
"A change gonna come" : Jim Crow challenges during the depression and World War, 1929-43 -- "Almost the law" : black police and the ordeal of Jim Crow policing in postwar Houston, 1944-59 -- Circling the wagons : HPD retrenchment in a time of social change, 1960-73 -- "What a mess we have here" : chaos with the breakdown of leadership in the police department, 1973-78 -- The storm clouds of change : the death of José Campos Torres and the emergence of triracial politics in Houston, 1978-80 -- Calming the raging sea : Katherine J. Whitmire, Lee P. Brown, and the high tide of change for the police department, 1981-90
Examines the racial history of the Houston Police Department, drawing on police records and contemporary accounts to look at how Houston, and other police departments, responded to social, political, and institutional change from 1930 to 1990
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 208 p.)
ISBN:1585444375
1603446192
9781585444373
9781603446198

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