Race and the Houston police department, 1930-1990 : a change did come

Race and the Houston police department, 1930-1990 : a change did come / Dwight Watson.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Dwight
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 102.
Subjects:
Police > Texas > Houston.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Police
Race relations
Houston (Tex.) > Race relations.
Texas > Houston
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of 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.

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