When Archie McKay put on his City of Miami Police uniform for the first time in 1954, 10 years after the city hired its first five Black officers, it was a bittersweet moment. While he was proud to be ...

Even 20 years after Clara Luper's famous sit-in, no Black people had been employed by the city of Moore. Until Nate Tarver. Things were very different in 1979, Tarver remembered. He'd recently ...

Archie McKay as an officer with the city of Miami Police Department in 1954. He was one of the first Black Miami police officers. The McKay family When Archie McKay put on his City of Miami Police ...