In legal retrospect, things also began to change in the Miami Police Department. Since the city's birth, Miami had been strongly opposed to hiring blacks as police officers, as was generally true throughout the southern states. ... The recruitment of John Milledge, Ralph White, Clyde Lee, Ed Kimball, and Moody Hall had taken place under extreme secrecy, since many whites were opposed to blacks on the police force." ... According to a black police officer hired in 1947, not until 1963 could black Miami police officers arrest whites. In March 1945 the assignment of black police officers...

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In textbooks, literature, and films alike, the African American struggle to be viewed simply as "human" through the eyes of their white counterparts is portrayed through images of horrible inequality, police brutality, and violations of the United States constitution, which guarantees equal protection of all American citizens under the law. ...

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Widow Douglas and Miss Watson are also portrayed as piously religious people who profess themselves to be believers in the word of God, yet they see nothing wrong with keeping slaves and the brutality of disconnecting Jim from his family. ...

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