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 | #1197804 in Books |  Ginger Adams Otis |  2015-05-26 |  2015-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  240.28 x1.08 x6.36l,.0 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||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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