SOURCE: Washington Post
9/24/2020
tags: racism, Reconstruction, urban history, policing, black codes
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9/24/2020
The Origins of Policing in America
Historians in the Newstags: racism, Reconstruction, urban history, policing, black codes
Historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Media Studies scholar Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people.
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