Black Firefighters And The Fdny

Author : David Goldberg
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469633633

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Black Firefighters and the FDNY by David Goldberg Pdf

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.

Author : David A. Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798890847928

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Black Firefighters and the FDNY by David A. Goldberg Pdf

Author : Ret. Lt. William "Bill" High FDNY 1962-1980
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639858408

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My Real Black Fire by Ret. Lt. William "Bill" High FDNY 1962-1980 Pdf

MY JOURNEY THROUGH THE "FDNY" THE NEW YORK CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT IN THE 1960'S AND 70'S WILL EXPOSE MUCH OF WHAT I HAVE WITNESSED. THE MANY HEROIC DEEDS, THE HISTORIC SYSTEMATIC CULTURAL RACISM, THE ETHNIC FAVORITISM, THE ACCEPTED GLORIFIED EMBELLISHMENTS, AND THE INDIFFERENCE THAT PREVAILED IN SOMANY OF THE BLACK COMMUNITIES DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THAT TIME. I NEVER ALLOWED MY FIREFIGHTER'S LIFE'S PURPOSE TO CONSIDER ONE'S GENDER, COLOR OR RELIGION TO PREVENT ME FROM STEPPING IN HARM'S DEADLY PATH, IN THE PRESERVATION OF A LIFE UNKNOWN TO ME. LT. BILL HIGH.., FDNY

Author : Dianne Ochiltree
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635924374

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Molly, by Golly! by Dianne Ochiltree Pdf

Here is the story of Molly Williams, an African American cook for New York City's Fire Company 11 who is considered to be the first known female firefighter in U.S. history. New York City’s Fire Company Number 11 is in trouble. A deadly snowstorm is blowing, and many of the volunteers are sick in bed. When the fire alarm sounds, who will answer the call? Who will save the neighborhood? Molly Williams, the company’s cook, for one! Clapping a weathered leather helmet on her head, strapping spatterdashes over her woolen leggings, and pulling on heavy work gloves —it’s Molly, by golly, to the rescue. Young readers will enjoy plucky Molly Williams’s legendary adventure as they learn how fires were fought in the early 1800s.

Author : Ginger Adams Otis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466879331

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Firefight by Ginger Adams Otis Pdf

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. That made the FDNY a true aberration compared to all the other uniformed departments, like the NYPD. Decades earlier, women and blacks had sued over its hiring practices and won. But the FDNY never took permanent steps to eradicate the inequities, which led to a courtroom show-down between New York City's billionaire Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, and a determined group of black activist firefighters. It was not until 2014 that the city settled the $98 million lawsuit. At the center of this book are stories of courage—about firefighters risking their lives in the line of duty but also risking their livelihood by battling an unjust system. Among them: FDNY Captain Paul Washington, a second generation black firefighter, who spent his multi-decade career fighting to get minorities on the job. He faced an insular culture made up of relatives who never saw their own inclusion as favoritism. Based on author Ginger Adams Otis' years of on the ground reporting, Firefight is an exciting blend of the high-octane energy of firefighting and critical Civil Rights history.

Author : Robert J. Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 140108981X

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Black Fire by Robert J. Crawford Pdf

Black Fire: Portrait of a Black Firefighter, a regional autobiographical and historical account of the struggles of black firefighters in Memphis takes us through Robert's childhood, army life, return home and the racism inflicted as he seeks employment. Finally, a fire recruit for the city's fire department, his goal is to obtain the highest rank possible. Those who are first to integrate or endeavors to change an establish institution such as the fire department can identify with this journey. Problems the black firefighter encounters is to intense, too interesting and to historical to dismiss without leaving a note for the future.

Author : Dekalb Walcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1495178307

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Black Heroes of Fire by Dekalb Walcott Pdf

This exposé introduces and describes the background of the members of Engine 21. Engine 21 was Chicago's first organized paid African American Firefighting Company. The writer provides information and insight on changes from Slavery to Freedom in the African American Community and the political impact that affected change for African American Firefighters, during this period of reconstruction in America.

Author : Richard Picciotto,Daniel Paisner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101220757

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Last Man Down by Richard Picciotto,Daniel Paisner Pdf

A first responder’s harrowing account of 9/11—the inspirational true story of an American hero who gave nearly everything for others during one of New York City’s darkest hours. On September 11, 2001, FDNY Battalion Chief Richard “Pitch” Picciotto answered the call heard around the world. In minutes, he was at Ground Zero of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, as the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center began to burn—and then to buckle. A veteran of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Picciotto was eerily familiar with the inside of the North Tower. And it was there that he concentrated his rescue efforts. It was in its smoky stairwells where he heard and felt the South Tower collapse. He made the call for firemen and rescue workers to evacuate, while he stayed behind with a skeleton team of men to help evacuate a group of disabled and infirm civilians. And it was in the rubble of the North Tower where Picciotto found himself buried—for more than four hours after the building’s collapse.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 098627190X

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Fdny 150 by Anonim Pdf

FDNY 150 Celebrating the Past, Present and Future

Author : Oliver Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429673191

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Laboured Protest by Oliver Ayers Pdf

Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more interesting, movement than previously thought.

Author : Glenn P. Corbett
Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781593701352

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Fire Engineering's Handbook for Firefighter I and II by Glenn P. Corbett Pdf

Corbett, technical editor of "Fire Engineering" magazine, has assembled more than 40 accomplished fire service professionals to compile one of the most authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date basics book for Firefighter I and II classes.

Author : Theresa Delgadillo,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera,Geraldo L. Cadava,Claire F. Fox
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252053542

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Building Sustainable Worlds by Theresa Delgadillo,Ramon H. Rivera-Servera,Geraldo L. Cadava,Claire F. Fox Pdf

Latina/o/x places exist as both tangible physical phenomena and gatherings created and maintained by creative cultural practices. In this collection, an interdisciplinary group of contributors critically examines the many ways that varied Latina/o/x communities cohere through cultural expression. Authors consider how our embodied experiences of place, together with our histories and knowledge, inform our imagination and reimagination of our surroundings in acts of placemaking. This placemaking often considers environmental sustainability as it helps to sustain communities in the face of xenophobia and racism through cultural expression ranging from festivals to zines to sanctuary movements. It emerges not only in specific locations but as movement within and between sites; not only as part of a built environment, but also as an aesthetic practice; and not only because of efforts by cultural, political, and institutional leaders, but through mass media and countless human interactions. A rare and crucial perspective on Latina/o/x people in the Midwest, Building Sustainable Worlds reveals how expressive culture contributes to, and sustains, a sense of place in an uncertain era.

Author : Wendell Goins Jr
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 144999637X

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We Want Em All! by Wendell Goins Jr Pdf

This is a book about F.I.R.E. "Firefighter's Institute for Racial Equality" F.I.R.E. is a book about the history of black firefighters on the St. Louis fire department. The story starts from 1921 when blacks were first allowed on the department to the year 2010. This book covers the black firemen's struggles with racism and discrimination on the department and their eventual victory over their opponents. This book also tells the story of F.I.R.E.'s important court victories that changed the racial makeup of fire departments in St. Louis and the country. This story also explains F.I.R.E.'s entry into politics and the impact the black firemen had on the St. Louis community.

Author : Chris Ganci
Publisher : Orchard
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439443865

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Chief by Chris Ganci Pdf

Traces the life and firefighting career of the author's father, the highest ranking member of the New York City fire department to die on September 11, 2001.

Author : Northeast Editing, Inc.
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780544181533

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CliffsNotes Firefighter Exam Cram Plan by Northeast Editing, Inc. Pdf

Get a plan to ace the exam—no matter how much time you have left Includes a diagnostic test to help you pinpoint where you need the most help Includes a two-month, one-month, and one-week cram plan Full-length practice exam with complete answer explanations