Gordon Parks photo of Engine Company No. 4 firemen receiving instructions , 1943
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Engine Company No. 4, All-Black Unit: 931 R Street NW
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Engine Company No. 4, All-Black Unit: 931 R Street NW
Civil Rights Tour: Employment - Engine Company No. 4, All-Black Unit: 931 R Street NW
In its first fifty years since it was professionalized in the 1870s, the DC Fire Department had employed a few Black firefighters, but none had ever achieved officer status until three African…