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Title Firefight : the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest / Ginger Adams Otis.
Author Otis, Ginger Adams, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  363.37 OTI    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
Contents Prologue : All fired up -- Into the flames -- Un-civil service -- We shall overcome -- New beginnings -- The slow burn -- Get out of the kitchen -- The can man -- Blowback -- Amid the embers -- Fighting the fire within -- FDNY aflame -- Burned -- Up in smoke -- Fire escape -- Trial by fire -- Epilogue : Out of the ashes.
Summary "Documents the early-20th-century struggle for African Americans to obtain positions of equality in the FDNY, recounting how after key lawsuit rulings, a determined group of activists fought powerful government prejudices to enforce laws against discrimination in uniformed jobs,"--Novelist.
Subject African American fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Fire departments -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Discrimination in employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
Genre History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Note Title from jacket: Fire-fight
ISBN 9781137280015 (hardcover) : $28.00
1137280018 (hardcover)
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