TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldberg,David A.
TI  - Black firefighters and the FDNY: the struggle for jobs, justice, and equity in New York City 
T2  - Justice, power, and politics
SN  - 9781469633626 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - TH9505.N5 G63 2017
U1  - 331.6/39607307471 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Fire Department
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Vulcan Society
KW  - African American fire fighters
KW  - Employment
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Fire departments
N1  - Includes bibliographical references 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
ER  -