Race and the Houston police department, 1930-1990
Subtitle: a change did come
By: Dwight Watson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University -- no. 102.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: College Station. Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Police -- Texas -- Houston.; Houston (Tex.) -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. ([179]-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A change gonna come" : Jim Crow challenges during the depression and World War, 1929-43; title: "Almost the law" : black police and the ordeal of Jim Crow policing in postwar Houston, 1944-59; title: Circling the wagons : HPD retrenchment in a time of social change, 1960-73; title: "What a mess we have here" : chaos with the breakdown of leadership in the police department, 1973-78; title: The storm clouds of change : the death of José Campos Torres and the emergence of triracial politics in Houston, 1978-80; title: Calming the raging sea : Katherine J. Whitmire, Lee P. Brown, and the high tide of change for the police department, 1981-90.