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21 Σεπ 2016 · Black in Blue: Atlanta’s first African American police officers were vanguards of the civil rights movement. They weren’t allowed to patrol white neighborhoods or work in police headquarters...
22 Αυγ 2013 · Atlanta's first African American police officers patrolled in 1948 and provide a great story not only about Atlanta history, but police history as well.
2 Μαρ 2022 · Complaints of police brutality and racial conflict in Atlanta continued into the era of the modern civil rights movement. Though eight African American policemen were hired by the city in 1948, African Americans remained a small minority on the force for years to come.
20 Νοε 2021 · As early as 1867, Atlantans began campaigning for African American police officers. Finally, in 1948, eight Black policemen were sworn into service. (A historical marker located in Atlanta in Fulton County, Georgia.)
The Atlanta Police Department (APD) is a law enforcement agency in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The city shifted from its rural-based Marshal and Deputy Marshal model at the end of the 19th century.
7 Απρ 2011 · Chartered in 1917, the NAACP Atlanta Branch started under the leadership of James Weldon Johnson, Harry Pace, Dr. Charles Johnson, Dr. Louis Wright, and Walter White. The collection spans the 1950s through the 1990s, with the bulk of it from when Jondelle Johnson was Executive Director in the 1970s and 1980s.
This introductory chapter sets out the book’s purpose, which is to tell stories about the debates surrounding the goals, strategies, and tactics of the civil rights struggle, in Atlanta from the postwar era through the 1970s.
