TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otis,Ginger Adams
TI  - Firefight: the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest 
SN  - 1137280018
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
KW  - African American fire fighters
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - Discrimination in employment
KW  - Fire departments
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Race relations
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -