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001			007737669
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008			141030s2015 nyua b 001 0ceng
010			_a2014041818
020			_a1137280018 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781137280015 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)889523595
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dIG# _dYDXCP _dBTCTA _dBDX _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dCDX _dFM0 _dRCJ _dOCLCO _dON8 _dNFG
043			_an-us-ny
049			_aNFGA _aNFCA
092			_a363.3708 _bO88
100	1		_aOtis, Ginger Adams, _eauthor. _9281159
245	1	0	_aFirefight : _bthe century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest / _cGinger Adams Otis.
246	1		_iTitle from jacket: _aFire-fight
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan Trade, _c2015.
300			_a281 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
505	0		_aPrologue : 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.
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aAfrican American fire fighters _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory. _9281160
650		0	_aDiscrimination in employment _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory. _9281161
650		0	_aFire departments _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory. _9281162
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _xRace relations. _9281163
942			_cBOOK _00
994			_aC0 _bNFG
998			_a007737669
999			_c193931 _d193931