Author: Officer Willard Strickland

Cited by

• Thomas Mullen (1)
  • IN: Dark Town (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I must tell you, it was not easy for me to raise my right hand and say, "I, Willard Strickland, a Negro do solemnly swear to perform the duties of a Negro policeman."
    FROM: Atlanta Police Department in a 1977 Speech recalling his 1948 induction as one of the city's first eight African American officers, (1977), Speech, US