Firefight : the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest /
Otis, Ginger Adams,
Firefight : the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest / Title from jacket: Fire-fight Ginger Adams Otis. - First edition. - 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
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.
"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.
1137280018 9781137280015
2014041818
African American fire fighters--History.--New York (State)--New York
Discrimination in employment--History.--New York (State)--New York
Fire departments--History.--New York (State)--New York
New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.
Firefight : the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest / Title from jacket: Fire-fight Ginger Adams Otis. - First edition. - 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
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.
"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.
1137280018 9781137280015
2014041818
African American fire fighters--History.--New York (State)--New York
Discrimination in employment--History.--New York (State)--New York
Fire departments--History.--New York (State)--New York
New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.