“What could have happened, given her status as this city’s first black police officer, is that racists outside the department or in could have taken aim at her character, her ...

In 1896, the first African-American police officer ... Marvin Dulaney is a historian who researches Black police officers throughout American history and documents McDuff’s triumphs and tragedies.

“As we know with McDuff and Black police officers in most of the southern cities, they could not arrest whites,” Dulaney said. With his place in history cemented as the first Black ...

The city of Dallas, Texas is honoring the first Black police officer 128 years after his tragic murder. Dallas has honored its first African American police officer, Officer William McDuff ...

Carolyn Baker-Marzette broke barriers when she was called to serve as the first black female officer at the Opelousas Police Department. More than 20 years later Marzette is being honored for ...