Margie Annette Hawkins Duty, the first female African American to be employed as a police officer in Houston, was born in Jennings, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, to Robert Hawkins and Alice Hawkins on August 28, 1922. During the mid-twentieth century, white police officers in Houston often were reluctant to serve in neighborhoods that were predominantly […]

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