Alvin Brooks (activist)

Alvin Brooks (born Alvin Lee Gilder; May 3, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, community leader, and retired KCPD officer and public official. His universally lauded career of more than seven decades has made him a key figure in Kansas City, Missouri, including as one of the city's first Black police officers in 1954, founder of the influential Ad Hoc Group Against Crime in 1977, and city councilman and mayor pro tem from 1999 to 2007. In the aftermath of the 1968 Kansas City riots spar...