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- Title
Segregating the Police: Race and the Reality of Being a Black Police Officer in Postwar Memphis.
- Authors
Williams Carmack, Margaret
- Abstract
The article discusses the employment of African American police officers in Memphis, Tennessee during the implementation of Jim Crow laws. Topics explored include the job and population growth in the region following World War II, the role of these police officers in the regulation of African American urban populations, activism, and racial tension, and the segregation and discrimination experienced by these police officers in Memphis.
- Subjects
MEMPHIS (Tenn.); UNITED States; AFRICAN American police; JIM Crow laws; EMPLOYMENT of African Americans; URBAN African Americans; ACTIVISM; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); POLICE
- Publication
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0735-8342
- Publication type
Article