Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520213
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Tennessee Highway Patrol
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520213
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520213
Category : Tennessee
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Color of the Law
Author: Gail Williams O'Brien
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807882305
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail. Drawing on oral interviews and a rich array of written sources, Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot," the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. In the process, she illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the United States. O'Brien argues that the Columbia events are emblematic of a nationwide shift during the 1940s from mob violence against African Americans to increased confrontations between blacks and the police and courts. As such, they reveal the history behind such contemporary conflicts as the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807882305
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police officers were shot and wounded when they tried to enter the town's black business district. The next morning, the Tennessee Highway Patrol invaded the district, wrecking establishments and beating men as they arrested them. By day's end, more than one hundred African Americans had been jailed. Two days later, highway patrolmen killed two of the arrestees while they were awaiting release from jail. Drawing on oral interviews and a rich array of written sources, Gail Williams O'Brien tells the dramatic story of the Columbia "race riot," the national attention it drew, and its surprising legal aftermath. In the process, she illuminates the effects of World War II on race relations and the criminal justice system in the United States. O'Brien argues that the Columbia events are emblematic of a nationwide shift during the 1940s from mob violence against African Americans to increased confrontations between blacks and the police and courts. As such, they reveal the history behind such contemporary conflicts as the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases.
State Trooper
Author: Marilyn Olsen
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116138
Category : Police patrol
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This study examines the phenomenon of peasant resistance in westernMaharashtra with special reference to the years 1875-1947. It investigates thetranformation of agrarian society in this region through a sociological analysisof specific cases of peasant resistance.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563116138
Category : Police patrol
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This study examines the phenomenon of peasant resistance in westernMaharashtra with special reference to the years 1875-1947. It investigates thetranformation of agrarian society in this region through a sociological analysisof specific cases of peasant resistance.
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Author: Michael K. Honey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.
Progress Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Politics Vs. Prejudice in the Highway Patrol
Author: Reynaldo Laureano
Publisher: Reynaldo Laureano
ISBN: 0615303684
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Publisher: Reynaldo Laureano
ISBN: 0615303684
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Reports
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Action Program
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Traffic accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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FBI National Academy Associates Newsletter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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