Description

Lifestyle of A Professional Booster. An Instrumental Crime. A Dallas Texas Story. Part Two: 1900 to 1940. This book is based on true events relating to instrumental crimes in Dallas, Texas. This book looks at Social Learning Theory and Urie Bronfenbrenner Ecological Theory in relations to how Black people may have learned some forms of crime or influential factors that may have impacted Black people involvement in criminal behavior. Some of the factors that impacted Black people, rather negative, positive or empowering, from the 1900 to 1940, included:

The Divine Nine (e.g., Black Fraternities and Sororities)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P)

The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (U.N.I.A)

Prohibition

Strong Drink (e.g., intoxicating liquor)

Cocaine

Reefer madness

Police Brutality (e.g., third degree methods)

Ku Klux Klan

The Great Migration

Organized Crime

Women Rights

The Great Depression

The Black Vote

etc.

*** In some instances text from Wikipedia, was utilized in relation to biographical information or for the purposes of enhancing information on the subject matter***