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Firefight The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest by GingerAdamsOtis Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-1-137-28001-5, ISBN: 1-137-28001-8
"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 millio ..."
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Puerto Rico(3rd Edition) (Lonely Planet) by GingerAdamsOtis, Virginia Otis Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 2005 by Lonely Planet ISBN-13: 978-1-74059-781-4, ISBN: 1-74059-781-8
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Firefight The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest by GingerAdamsOtis 272 Pages, Published 2015 by St. Martin's Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4668-7933-1, ISBN: 1-4668-7933-5
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