Black Fire: Portrait of a Black Memphis Firefighter, Robert J. Crawford Sr., Dolores Crawford, History Press, 2007
In 1874, three black men were appointed to the Memphis Fire Department. These three men never fought a fire and were with the department for only eight days. It took more than eighty years for the Memphis Fire Department to hire Robert Crawford and eleven others, who fought not only fires, but also the political battles raging in the racially divided city of Memphis.
Black Fire: Portrait of a Black Memphis Firefighter is a vivid, often emotional account of a turbulent decade and one man’s brave ambition to serve and succeed as a firefighter.
6" x 9 1/4", 157 pages, B&W photos, softcover, ISBN: 978-1-59629-328-1, BB4445 / $19.99
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