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Author Otis, Ginger Adams, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan Trade, 2015.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  363.37 OTIS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973 OTI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.37 OT4    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  363.37 OTI    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  363.3708 OTIS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.37 OT    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
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.
Subject African American fire fighters -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Fire departments -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Discrimination in employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
African American fire fighters. (OCoLC)fst00799169
Discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst00895050
Fire departments. (OCoLC)fst00925238
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
New York (State) -- New York. (OCoLC)fst01204333
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Note Title from jacket: Fire-fight
ISBN 9781137280015 (hardcover)
1137280018 (hardcover)
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