Law enforcement, race relations: 1930-1960
Subtitle: and related material
By: Robert B. Powers; tape recorded interview conducted by Amelia R. Fry in 1969. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1971 :
Contributors: Kenny, Robert Walker, 1901-; Lomax, Almena.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Published: 1969
Subjects: Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Warren, Methias, d. 1938.; Bakersfield (Calif.). Police Dept.; Oakland (Calif.). Police Dept.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Police -- California.; Law enforcement -- California.; Race discrimination -- California.; Race discrimination -- Arizona.; Japanese -- California.; African Americans -- California.; California -- Politics and government.
Description: Comments on his investigation, as police chief of Bakersfield, of the murder of Earl Warren's father; his service, under Attorney General Robert W. Kenny and Governor Warren, on the Law Enforcement Advisory Committee and as coordinator of law agencies and race relations; the return of the Japanese Americans from concentration camps in 1944; his role in the Oakland police inquiry, 1950. Photographs and copies of relevant documents inserted. Appended: photocopies of the following - article and memorandum by Almena Lomax re Warren; Powers and Kenny correspondence and memoranda re the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; articles by Powers; clippings re Oakland Police Department investigation; transcript of Powers' tape-recorded interview with Betty Toomes re a 1949 school integration incident in Arizona; clippings and a letter re a racial incident involving the police in Bakersfield, 1969.

With this: photocopy of Power's history of the Bakersfield Police Department; printed copy of A Guide to Race Relations for Police Officers; typed carbon of Powers' movie script, Race Relations.
Table of contents: value: Partial interview. Reel 1: track 1: 1052 ft., track 2: 1074 ft. Reel 2: track 1: 1062 ft., track 2: 1044 ft.; value: Phonotapes :