"The Texas Negro Peace Officers attempted to overcome [racial] hostility by holding annual conventions throughout the state to meet local law enforcement officials, and to demonstrate that blacks were professionals" (Dulaney 2010).

Fire and Police Commissioner Preston L. Anderson pins a badge on an officer at a ceremony held at New Light Baptist Church. Special Officer I.C. Collins, vice president of the San Antonio Chapter of the TNPOA, is clapping in the background.

Courtesy of San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation