BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " JOHNNIE YOUNG " WAS A SERVING POLICE OFFICER ACCIDENTALLY SHOT DEAD ON DUTY : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK HEROES "

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Portrait of Miami police officer Johnnie Young

Credit this photo: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, https://floridamemory.com/items/show/13737
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Title

• Portrait of Miami police officer Johnnie Young

Image Number

• PR20205

Year

• Between 1945 and 1947

Series Title

• General: Print collections

General Note

• Born July 2, 1914, in Fitzgerald, Georgia. Moved to Miami in 1934 to join his step-brother. Married Annie Ruth Hall in 1935. Joined the Miami Police Department in 1945. On March 7, 1947 he was accidentally shot by Officer R.A. MacFarland while trying to catch burglary suspects. He was the second black police officer to be killed in the line of duty in Miami. His name is inscribed (West Wall, Panel 23, Line 10) on the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Title of Work

• Forgotten Heroes: Police Officers Killed in Dade County

Additional Creator

• Wilbanks, William,1940-

Physical Description

• 1 photoprint - b&w - 7 x 5 in.

Subject Term

• Ethnicity, African diaspora
• Ethnicity, African American
• African Americans--Florida--Dade County--Miami
• Violent deaths
• Accidents
• Law enforcement--Florida--Dade County--Miami--Portraits
• Peace officers--Florida--Dade County--Miami--Portraits
• Police--Uniforms
• African American men--Florida--Dade County--Miami--Portraits
• African American police--Florida--Dade County--Miami--Portraits

Geographic Term

• Dade County (Fla.)
• Miami (Fla.)

Personal Subject

• Young, Johnnie, 1914-1947--Portraits.

Subject Corporate

• Miami Police Department (Fla.)--Officials and employees.