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Black Rage in New Orleans : Police Brutality and African American Activism From World War II to Hurricane Katrina by Leonard Nathaniel Moore is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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In Black Rage in New Orleans , Leonard N. 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. In New Orleans, crime, drug abuse, and murder were commonplace, and an underpaid, inadequately staffed, and poorly trained police force frequently resorted to brutality against African Americans. Endemic corruption among police officers increased as the city's crime rate soared, generating anger and frustration among New Orleans's black community. Rather than remain passive, African Americans in the city formed antibrutality organizations, staged marches, held sit-ins, waged boycotts, vocalized their concerns at city council meetings, and demanded equitable treatment. 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 vociferous calls for reform by the city's black community. Documenting the police harassment of civil rights workers in the 1950s and 1960s, Moore then exa
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- Author
- Leonard Nathaniel Moore
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807145968
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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