Headshots of the Courageous Twelve

Creator

Unknown

Files

Preview

Creation Date

1960

Time Period

circa 1960s

Abstract

A series of twelve headshots of the St. Petersburg Police officers that made up the "Courageous Twelve." Top row from left to right: Adam Baker, Charles Holland, Freddie L. Crawford, Horace Nero, James King, and Jerry Styles. Bottom row from left to right: Johnnie B. Lewis, Leon Jackson, Nathaniel L. Wooten, Primus Killen, Raymond L. DeLoach, and Robert V. Keys.

Keywords

St. Petersburg (Fla.). Police Department, Police, Race discrimination, Discrimination in employment

Extent

12 headshots

Subject: geographic

St. Petersburg (Fla.)

Media Type

Headshots

Format

Digital Only

Note

In 1965, St. Petersburg was a racially segregated city. Black police officers were only allowed to patrol Black neighborhoods and could not arrest white citizens. On May 11, 1965, twelve of the fifteen Black police officers filed a discrimination lawsuit. It went to federal court in 1966 where Judge Joseph Lieb dismissed the case. With assistance from the NAACP, the twelve officers filed an appeal and the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in their favor on August 1, 1968. The next year, Black officers were assigned to all-white neighborhoods. The twelve police officers were called "The Courageous 12."

Local ID

TWC-Photo_HistoricPhoto_0002

Provenance

Donated and permissions granted by The Weekly Challenger to USFSP Nelson Poynter Memorial Library, Special Collections & University Archives on October 25, 2016

Digital Responsible Institution

University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Dissemenation File Format

JPEG

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Unknown, "Headshots of the Courageous Twelve" (1960). Weekly Challenger Image Collection. Image 155.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/challenger_images/155