Collection.

The Resource Law enforcement, race relations: 1930-1960 : : and related material, 1969-1971

Label: Law enforcement, race relations: 1930-1960 : : and related material, 1969-1971

Statement of responsibility: Robert B. Powers; tape recorded interview conducted by Amelia R. Fry in 1969. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1971

Summary

Comments on his investigation, as police chief of Bakersfield, of the murder of Earl Warren's father; his service, under Attorney General Robert W. Kenny and Governor Warren, on the Law Enforcement Advisory Committee and as coordinator of law agencies and race relations; the return of the Japanese Americans from concentration camps in 1944; his role in the Oakland police inquiry, 1950. Photographs and copies of relevant documents inserted. Appended: photocopies of the following - article and memorandum by Almena Lomax re Warren; Powers and Kenny correspondence and memoranda re the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; articles by Powers; clippings re Oakland Police Department investigation; transcript of Powers' tape-recorded interview with Betty Toomes re a 1949 school integration incident in Arizona; clippings and a letter re a racial incident involving the police in Bakersfield, 1969
With this: photocopy of Power's history of the Bakersfield Police Department; printed copy of A Guide to Race Relations for Police Officers; typed carbon of Powers' movie script, Race Relations

Location of originals duplicates: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Context

Context of Law enforcement, race relations: 1930-1960 : : and related material, 1969-1971