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Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest by Ginger Adams Otis

Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest

Ginger Adams Otis

288 pages hardcover 2015

2 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced
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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 lat...

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