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2 Where Would the Negro Women Apply for Work? Wartime Clashes over Labor, Gender, and Racial Justice
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Police Sexual Assault and Postwar Politics Police Sexual Assault and Postwar Politics
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Police Violence and Wartime Racial Control Police Violence and Wartime Racial Control
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Vice, Venereal Disease, and Regulation of Black Women's Bodies Vice, Venereal Disease, and Regulation of Black Women's Bodies
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Gender and the Racial Politics of Postwar Political Leadership Gender and the Racial Politics of Postwar Political Leadership
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Black Women's Sexuality on Trial Black Women's Sexuality on Trial
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Racial Justice and Postwar Protest Racial Justice and Postwar Protest
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The Politics of Police Brutality The Politics of Police Brutality
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3 Moral Outrage: Postwar Protest against Police Violence and Sexual Assault
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Published:May 2007
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This chapter examines the black community's moral outrage against police brutality involving sexual assaults in postwar Memphis and its major ramifications for the politics of racial justice. It discusses how police sexual assaults of black women galvanized African Americans and put race, manhood, womanhood, and sexuality at the center of postwar political tensions in the city. The chapter also considers efforts by southern moderates and veterans' groups to banish corrupt political machines after the war and the response of officials behind the Crump machine to such efforts. In addition, it looks at the exacerbation of racial tensions in Memphis during World War II due to an influx of migrants and servicemen, including shore patrol and military police. Finally, the chapter describes police campaigns against vice and syphilis, and how they intensified the authority of white policemen.
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