Firefight : the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest / Ginger Adams Otis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 281 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137280015
  • 1137280018
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.37089/0097471 23
LOC classification:
  • TH9505.N5 O85 2015
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.
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Includes index.

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.

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