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| #1100580 in Books | Ginger Adams Otis | 2015-05-26 | 2015-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.46 x1.09 x6.36l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages | Firefight The Century Long Battle to Integrate New York s Bravest||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Her first-peron approach brings life to what could easily could have been another dry history lesson|By Gary R. Urbanowicz|A difficult story to tell and one whose details are rarely contained by sensational journalists. Ginger Adams Otis provides an in-depth chronology of this compelling story and does so with a style that grabs the reader and won't let go. Her first-peron ap|||"Inspirational ... chronicles the ongoing African-American struggle to join the ranks of New York City’s firefighters a century after it was first integrated." ―Kam Williams|“The seasoned City Hall writer sensitively brings the men and women who
In 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York City firefighter, he stepped into a world that was 100% white and predominantly Irish. As far as this city knew, black men in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) tended horses.
Nearly a century later, many things in the FDNY had changed―but not the scarcity of blacks. New York had about 300 black firefighters―roughly 3 percent of the 11,000 New York firefighters in a city of two million African Americans. Th...
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