(Hardback)

A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department's first black officer. As New York City's first African American cop, Samuel Battle had to fear his racist colleagues as much as the criminal element and to navigate the politics of Tammany Hall and of powe

(Paperback)

A history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department's first black officer. As New York City's first African American cop, Samuel Battle had to fear his racist colleagues as much as the criminal element and to navigate the politics of Tammany Hall and of powe