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Booker, Cicero B., Jr.  

Mason R. Hazzard

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31 May 2015

police officer, civil rights activist, and litigant, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, to Cicero B. Booker Sr., the first African American police officer in the town of Waterbury, and Addie Booker, a homemaker.

Booker attended and graduated from the local public schools before going on to further his education, earning an associate's degree in Police Science and Administration from Mattatuck Community College, now known as Naugatuck Valley Community College, in Waterbury in 1978. He also attended Western Connecticut State University. In 1955, at the age of seventeen, Booker enrolled in the US Marine Corps as a private, remaining on active duty for three years until he left the military in 1958 at the rank of corporal.

Booker then joined the police department in his hometown of Waterbury in 1961. He quickly ascended to the rank of patrol officer, but by 1985 his ...

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Brown, Cora  

Linda M. Carter

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15 March 2013
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31 May 2013

state legislator, attorney, police officer, and social worker, was born Cora Mae Brown in Bessemer, Alabama, the only child of Richard and Alice Brown. Her father and mother were employed as a tailor and cook respectively. In 1922 the family moved to Detroit when Brown was seven years old. After graduating from Cass Technical High School in 1931, Brown attended Fisk University and received a degree in sociology in 1935.

Brown returned to Detroit, and until 1941, she was employed as a social worker. After working for the Children's Aid Bureau, Old Age Assistance Bureau, and the Works Progress Administration, Brown, as a policewoman in the Women's Division of the Detroit Police Department from 1941 to 1946, prepared legal cases. In 1946 Brown enrolled in Wayne State University's School of Law; she received her LL.B degree in 1948 and passed ...

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Brown, Lee  

Cary D. Wintz

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09 February 2009
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01 December 2009

law enforcement officer, mayor, cabinet secretary, and professor. Lee Brown is best known as a high-profile law enforcement officer who held the position of chief of police or its equivalent in four major U.S. cities, served in President Bill Clinton's cabinet as drug czar, and was the first black mayor of Houston, Texas.

Lee Patrick Brown was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma, on 4 October 1937 to Andrew and Zelma Brown, who worked as farm laborers. When Brown was five the family moved to Fowler, California, about ten miles south of Fresno. As a child Brown often joined his parents in the fields, picking crops. But he also stayed in school, and he attended Fresno State University on a football scholarship, studying sociology and criminology.

In 1960 one semester before graduation Brown left college and took a job as a patrolman with the San Jose ...

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Brown, Lee P.  

John Herschel Barnhill

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31 May 2018

reform police commissioner and politician, was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma, the son of sharecroppers Andrew Brown and Zelma Brown. By the 1940s the Browns were in California, picking grapes, watermelon, and cotton. Lee worked the fields, but he was a high school athlete. An athletic scholarship to Fresno State University and a 1960 Fresno State B.S. in criminology enabled him to pursue police work. He became a San Jose police officer in 1960 even before graduation. In 1964–1965 he was head of the San Jose police union.

He received his M.A. in sociology from San Jose State University in 1964 and became an assistant professor there in 1968, the same year he earned his master's degree in criminology from the University of California, Berkeley. Brown moved to Portland State University in 1968 as chair of the Department of Administration of Justice He received his Ph D from ...

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Bussey, Charles  

Bret A. Weber

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15 March 2013
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31 May 2013

law enforcement officer, community organizer, and mayor, was born in Stamps, Lafayette County, Arkansas, but lived most of his life and built his career in the state capital, Little Rock. His mother, Annie Bussey, lived in Stamps, with his father Charlie Bussey, who worked at the local sawmill. A childhood friend of Maya Angelou's, Bussey and his sister, Delvira Bussey, who became a schoolteacher, shared a deep concern for the welfare and future of children. He moved to Little Rock in the 1940s and opened an appliance shop and on 11 October 1945 married Maggie Clark. Though unsuccessful in the appliance business, by 1950 he had become the state s first black deputy sheriff and was later assigned to the prosecuting attorney s office as an investigator As deputy sheriff he founded the Junior Deputy Baseball program and many of those ...

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Furbush, William Hines  

Blake Wintory

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15 March 2013
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31 May 2013

photographer, politician, sheriff, assayer, barber, and lawyer, was born a slave in Carroll County, Kentucky. William Hines Furbush became a member of the Arkansas General Assembly as well as the first sheriff of Lee County, Arkansas. His Arkansas political career began in the Republican Party at the close of Reconstruction and ended in the Democratic Party just as political disfranchisement began.

Little is known about Furbush's early life, though his literacy suggests a formal childhood education. Around 1860 he operated a photography studio in Delaware, Ohio. In March 1862 he traveled to Union-controlled Helena in Phillips County, Arkansas, on Kate Adams and continued to work as a photographer. In Franklin County, Ohio, that December he married Susan Dickey. A few years later, in February 1865 he joined the Forty second Colored Infantry at Columbus Ohio He received an honorable discharge at the ...

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Lamine, Théodore-Blaise  

Richard A. Bradshaw and Juan Fandos-Rius

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31 May 2013

policeman and politician in the Central African Republic (CAR), was born 11 October 1942 at Mbaiki in the Lobaye region of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa (FEA). He studied agricultural engineering at the Institut d’études agronomiques d’Afrique centrale (Central African Institute of Agronomic Studies) at Wakombo in the CAR, then poultry production at the École nationale d’aviculture (national aviculture school) in Rambouillet, France. By 1966, when Lamine was finishing his studies in Paris, Jean-Bédel Bokassa had seized power in the CAR; the new president was from the same ethnic group, the Ngbaka, and the same Lobaye region as Lamine. This provided Lamine with an opportunity to pursue a potentially more rewarding career, and so rather than becoming an agricultural engineer and animal husbandry expert, Lamine joined the Central African police force on 12 July 1967 and was sent to study at the École nationale supérieure de police national ...

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Meek, Kendrick B.  

Daryl A. Carter

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15 March 2013
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31 May 2013

congressman, was born Kendrick Brett Meek in Miami, Florida, one of three children and the only son of Carrie Pittman Meek, a member of Congress. Carrie Pittman Meek and Kendrick's father divorced; the first name of Meek's father is unknown. After completing high school, Meek attended Florida A&M University in Tallahassee. In college, Meek demonstrated a keen interest in politics and public affairs by founding the Florida A&M University's Democratic Club. Meek, within a year, was elected president of Florida's College Young Democrats. The future congressman was also a standout football player. He graduated with a B.S. in Criminal Justice in 1989. After being introduced by a judge with whom he was acquainted, Meek courted and married Leslie Dixon of Brooklyn, New York, in 1991. The couple has two children, Lauren and Kendrick Jr.

After his successful performance in college Meek used his degree to secure ...