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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Firefight

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

889523595

Responsibility statement

Ginger Adams Otis

Sub title

the century-long battle to integrate New York's bravest

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

Table Of 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

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Fire-fight

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