Date of Award
Fall 12-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Dr. Connie Atkinson
Second Advisor
Dr. Robert DuPont
Third Advisor
Dr. Nikki Brown
Abstract
Although historians have done in-‐depth researched on Black police in the South, before the Civil War and during Reconstruction, they seldom assess black policemen’s role in New Orleans between the Battle of Liberty Place and 1913. The men discussed here argue that despite the hardening racial attitudes in Post-‐ Reconstruction South, in New Orleans opportunity still existed for Blacks to serve in positions of authority, perhaps a heritage of the city’s earlier tri-‐partite racial order. The information obtained from primary sources such as police manuals, beat books, and newspapers, counters the widely held belief that African American presence in the police during this period was completely defined by Jim Crow. This work presents updated and corrected evidence that Blacks were enrolled in the New Orleans Police Department during the time of Jim Crow, challenging the notion that after 1909 Blacks in New Orleans were not part of the police department.
Recommended Citation
Flores-Robert, Vanessa, "Black Policemen in Jim Crow New Orleans" (2011). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1392.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1392
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