Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George EdwardsWayne State University Press, 2002 - 368 páginas Bridging the River of Hatred portrays the career of George Clifton Edwards, Jr., Detroit's visionary police commissioner whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the early 1960s were met with much controversy within the city's administration. At a crucial time when the Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum and hostility between urban police forces and African Americans was close to eruption, Edwards chose solving racial and urban problems as his mission. Deeply committed to social justice, Edwards was a historical figure with vast political and legal experience, having served as head of the Detroit Housing Commission, a member of Detroit's common council, a juvenile court judge, a Michigan Supreme Court justice, and judge on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Incorporating material from a manuscript that Edwards wrote before his death, supplemented by historical research, Mary M. Stolberg provides a rare case study of problems in policing, the impoverishment of American cities, and the evolution of race relations during the turbulent 1960s. |
Contenido
Introduction | 9 |
A Referendum for Reform | 17 |
Who Was George Edwards? | 38 |
Putting on the Armor of Light | 125 |
Bridging a River of Hatred | 148 |
Traffic Trash and LongTerm Change | 176 |
A Crusade Begins | 197 |
Battling Organized Crime | 219 |
Hope and Despair in Race Relations | 238 |
Final Days in Office | 259 |
Conclusion | 279 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 323 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
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Bridging the River of Hatred: The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police ... Mary M. Stolberg Sin vista previa disponible - 1998 |
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