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NorthJersey.com Jackie Robinson had been out of the major leagues for five years by the time the New Jersey State Police hired its first Black trooper. Six decades later, the department hails that man, Paul McLemore, as a true breaker of barriers. A black-and-white portrait of his October 1961 swearing-in hangs in the agency s West Trenton museum, and troopers speak of him with the same reverential tones a young ballplayer might use when discussing the Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball’s color boundary. Less spoken about until recently was the fierce racism McLemore met not only from the public, but from his own comrades-in-arms. And how the institutional racism that infused law enforcement at the time eventually pushed him out of the profession altogether.

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