Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.