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Race, crime, and policing in the Jim Crow South : African Americans and law enforcement in Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans, 1920-1945 /

Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South traces the growth of the police in the New South, the role of law enforcement in maintaining control over urban African-American populations, the ways black southerners responded to these developments, and most importantly, how African Americans manipu...

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Main Author: Jett, Brandon T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
Series:Making the modern South.
Subjects:
African Americans > Southern States > Government relations > History > 20th century.
Police-community relations > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in law enforcement > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Law enforcement > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.

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