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“With patronage jobs under the control of the Irish bosses of the Tammany political machine, Blacks were largely excluded from civil defense positions just as the public sector grew rapidly in the early twentieth century. New York’s fire department, for example, grew from a force of 1,000 firemen in 1888 to 7,500 men by 1930. And while the FDNY employed several different generations of firefighters during this forty-two-year period, only 5 African Americans managed to secure firefighting positions. 4”
— Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City (Justice, Power, and Politics) by David Goldberg
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