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Author Watson, Dwight

Title Race and the Houston police department, 1930-1990 : a change did come / Dwight Watson
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Series Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 102
Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 102
Contents "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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references pages (179-197) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Police -- Texas -- Houston
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
Police
Race relations
SUBJECT Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations
Subject Texas -- Houston
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005007868
ISBN 9781603446198
1603446192
1299137946
9781299137943