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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina

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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina - Moore, Leonard N
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In Black Rage in New Orleans, Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane Katrina and the concurrent rise of a large and energized black opposition to it. Moore explores a staggering array of NOPD abuses -- police homicides, sexual violence against women, racial profiling, and complicity in drug deals, prostitution rings, burglaries, protection schemes, and gun smuggling -- and the increasingly voceriferous calls for reform by the city's black community. The ...

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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina 2021, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807177372

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Black Rage in New Orleans: Police Brutality and African American Activism from World War II to Hurricane Katrina 2010, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807135907

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