Moore, Leonard N.
Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / [electronic resource] : Leonard N. Moore. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010. - xiv, 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.
Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape -- Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City -- Or does it explode?: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans -- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression -- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism -- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings -- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform -- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board -- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference -- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Social conditions--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Police-community relations--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F379.N557 / M66 2010eb
363.2/32
Black rage in New Orleans police brutality and African American activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina / [electronic resource] : Leonard N. Moore. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010. - xiv, 302 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.
Introduction: police violence, New Orleans, and the postwar urban landscape -- Negro police will aid in law and order: the fight for black police in the Crescent City -- Or does it explode?: the black freedom struggle comes to New Orleans -- "We want an end to police brutality": the Black Panthers, desire, and police repression -- The politics of self-defense: Mark Essex, the soul patrol, and black vigilantism -- The right to organize: the Black Organization of Police, mass protest, and the city council hearings -- Black power politics: Ernest "Dutch" Morial and the limits of police reform -- "We are living in a police state": the Algiers tragedy, the maturation of community protest, and the politics of a civilian review board -- Black-on-black crime: the consequences of white flight, the war on drugs, and political indifference -- "A new day in Babylon": the professionalization of the New Orleans Police Department and the claiming of urban public space.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
African Americans--Social conditions--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
Police-community relations--History--Louisiana--New Orleans--20th century.
New Orleans (La.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F379.N557 / M66 2010eb
363.2/32