Black firefighters and the FDNY : the struggle for jobs, justice, and equity in New York City / by David Goldberg.
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TextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- New York (N.Y.). Fire Department -- History -- 20th century
- New York (N.Y.). Fire Department. Vulcan Society -- History -- 20th century
- African American fire fighters -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Fire departments -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- TH9505 .B533 2017
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Includes bibliographies and index.
The early origins of ethnic insularity and racial exclusion in the New York City Fire Department -- The bravest of the brave : New York's first generation of black firefighters, 1898-1934 -- Fighting a good fight : the formation of the Vulcan Society, 1932-1945 -- Postwar civic and civil rights unionism : the Vulcan Society's golden age, 1946-1963 -- A black face in a high place, fire commissioner Robert O. Lowery : reform, retrenchment, and the limitations of racial liberalism -- From black power to class action : the International Association of Black Professional Firefighters and the rise of fire department discrimination litigation -- The last bastion of white male privilege : race, gender, and the FDNY, 1977-1999 -- Free at last? Black firefighters and the FDNY in the twenty-first century.
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