Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-2016
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Pan-African Studies
Degree Program
Pan-African Studies, MA
Committee Chair
Jones, Yvonne
Committee Co-Chair (if applicable)
Kinchen, Shirletta
Committee Member
Kinchen, Shirletta
Committee Member
Rollins Jr., Aaron
Author's Keywords
Police; Race; Indianapolis; Violance; Voting; Politics
Abstract
This study explores a series of events that occurred in the spring of 1876. The relationship between the Indianapolis city government, the Marion County Courts, the Indianapolis Police Department, and the African American community came together to usher in changes never before envisioned. The Indianapolis Police Department (IPD) was formed in 1855, then disbanded 12 months later in a political dispute. From 1857-to-1876, the IPD was all white. These changes took place as the Reconstruction era was coming to a close. The first Ku Klux Klan was at its apex, terrorizing black communities, and Jim Crow was coming into its own. There have been at least two dissertations written on the Indianapolis Police Department and several books explore the rise of the Indiana KKK and its interactions with the IPD.
Recommended Citation
Bates, Leon E., "How the city of Indianapolis came to have African American Policemen and Firemen 80 years before the modern civil rights movement." (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2488.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2488
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