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Arthur Browne, winner of a 2007 Pulitzer Prize, is editorial page editor of the New York Daily News. He is the author of One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York, which is published by Beacon Press.

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NYC’s First Black Cop and a Boy’s Racism

Life Lesson

Writing the biography of Samuel Battle, New York City’s first black policeman, Arthur Browne learned a lot about himself and a society’s not-so-subtle racism that formed him.

Arthur Browne | Published Aug 01, 2015