Watkins / Arrests during Protests
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Interviewer: What was the date that it started? Watkins: Actually, it was like 1959 or 1960. Interviewer: Nineteen fifty-nine or 1960, and then how long until it actually— Watkins: Well, I graduated in 1961 and it really got bad after I had graduated. That’s when they started throwing the kids in jail and a whole bunch of other stuff. I had an experience of being put in a paddy-wagon, but they didn’t take us to the jail. They just went around the block and let us out. They just went through the motions of putting us through the paddy-wagon and taking us around the block and they let us out. I understand after that, they started actually throwing the kids in jail. Interviewer: Did they drop you off in a white neighborhood? Watkins: They would bring us back closer to Third Ward where it was more black people. No, they wouldn’t do that.
| Interview | Interview with Halcyon O. Watkins |
| Subjects | Police and Law Enforcement |
| Student Activism › Sit-ins | |
| Tags | Houston Police Department |
| 3rd Ward, Houston | |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-23 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Watkins, Halcyon O. |
| Locations | Houston, TX |
| Duration | 00:01:07 |
| Citation | "Arrests during Protests," from Halcyon O. Watkins oral history interview with , July 23, 2015, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/294/arrests-during-protests, accessed April 20, 2024 |
