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Goldberg, David A., 1972- author.
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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.
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Black firefighters and the FDNY : the struggle for jobs, justice, and equity in
New
York
City [electronic resource].
by
Goldberg, David A., 1972- author.
Subjects
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
.
Electronic books.
Publisher Info:
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Made available through hoopla
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ISBN:
9781469633633 (electronic bk.)
1469633639 (electronic bk.)
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Summary:
For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in
New
York
City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the
fire
department
(FDNY). For over a
century
, generations of Black
New
Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg details the ways each generation of firefighters confronted overt and institutionalized racism. An important chapter in the histories of both Black social movements and independent workplace organizing, this book demonstrates how Black firefighters in
New
York
helped to create affirmative action from the "bottom up," while simultaneously revealing how white resistance to these efforts shaped white working-class conservatism and myths of American meritocracy. Full of colorful characters and rousing stories drawn from oral histories, discrimination suits, and the archives of the
Vulcan
Society
(the fraternal
society
of Black firefighters in
New
York
), this book sheds
new
light on the impact of Black firefighters in the fight for civil rights.
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