These Negro policemen appeal for law and order. Detective Sergeants Middleton and Scott drive through riot area urging members of their ract to get off streets and go home. July 28, 1919 https://chicagology.com/notorious-chicago/1919raceriots/
This Chicago Daily News photograph from 1908 shows this former station which served the 4th District in Bronzeville at 454 E. 35th. It opened in 1884, and was also known as the Stanton Avenue station. Notably, it was the headquarters for the officers who quelled the 1919 race riots. Officer John T. Scott, who was one of the responders to the incident, later became the first black police captain in the United States when he was made commander of this station. It was closed and combined into a new station at 29th and Prairie in 1952, which is still operating as the 21st District. http://forgottenchicago.com/articles/disused-police-stations/
Chicago Police Captain Retires
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Capt. Scott Served Chicago Dept. 36 Yrs.
Last week. Captain Scott before bis retirement was captain of the S Stanton Avenue Station, Thirty fifth and Rhodes, one of the busiest stations in the city. He has a total of 137 officers under his command, 75 per cent of them white. He has been in charge of Stanton Avenue Station since Sept. 1, 1940.
Captain Scott was promoted to sergeant in 1919, made a lieutenant in 1927 and appointed captain in South 1940. He has received 18 creditable Wiley, mentions and one citation for meritorious service.
Captain Scott has been a member of the Chicago police department since 1907. His first assignment as a patrolman was at the old Cottage Grove Station. 26th and Cottage Grove. He lives with his wife at 6428 S. Evans avenue. Captain Scott believes that greater opportunities are in colored officers, now that some of the racial barriers have been cracked.
Chicago has one colored lieutenant Harry Deas. who is a lieutenant in the uniform division. There are nine colored sergeants, all of the uniform ranks.
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CAPTAIN JOHN SCOTT
Capt. John Scott. Veteran member of the department.
who baa been appointed commander of Stanton Avenue Station.
STANTON Avenue has the distinction of being the first Chicago police command to be headed by a Negro police captain, and even Life Magazine took cognizance of the fact in a recentissue. When it carried a likeness of Captain John Scott as new commander of the district.
Captain Scott was promoted to a captaincy by order of Commissioner of Police Jame s P Allmanto fill the vacancy created by Captain George Lynch Scott's record previous to his promotion was an enviable one, and included a police service of 33 years, 13 of them as a lieutenant, and 18 citations for bravery.
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