Word: austin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Savoid has managed to accept and adjust to the difficulties inherent in his position, Nathanial Austin, a former black P.G. County policeman, did not fit in as well...
...Austin finally left the police department last year after three years of frustrated attempts to recruit more blacks into the department and to organize a black police union...
...Austin contends that the department "only brought blacks on as bodies to satisfy Justice Department pressure. There were no upward mobility opportunities...
Black and white policemen, he adds, "coexisted like Russia and the United States." Other black policemen did not want to join a union because of fear of reprisal and criticism from white colleagues, Austin states...
...prison at Andersonville, where almost 13,000 men died in 14 months to feed brands of ignorance and malice still ravenous now as then-or spend a long evening in a house on the edge of town with friends and kin joining other local boys (Mac Lee and "Amos" Austin) in songs new and old to first-class guitar: mainly A Satisfied Mind...