Oral history interview with Caudieu Cook, 2015.

Biographical Note

Caudieu Cook is a retired detective of the NYPD Violent Felony Warrant Squad. In his 32 years as an officer, from 1976 to 2008, he also worked in the Parole Major Case Unit, and began as a NY State Corrections Officer. He was active in the Guardians Association Executive Board as the sergeant at arms, and the vice president for Manhattan and then the Brooklyn boroughs

Scope and Contents

Caudieu Cook remembers his long career as a police officer in New York City as well as New York State, and as an active member of the Guardians Association. He discusses his experiences of protests in the 1960s for the end of de facto segregation in the public schools, for more minority teachers to be hired, and against the Viet Nam war. He also talks about having seen Martin Luther King Jr. speak, when he was a child, and the impact on his community after the assassinations of King and Malcolm X. Other core subjects include his education, and his work as an officer to speak out again injustice, violence, and racism

Subjects

• African American police--New York (State)--New York.
• Cook, Caudieu--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
• NYPD Guardians Association.
• New York (N.Y.). Police Department--History.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Strikes and lockouts--Teachers--New York (State)--New York.
• Strong, Liz, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. Marine Corps.

Access Conditions

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