Abstract
In 1982, even before Probationary Firefighter Brenda Berkman’s arrival at her first assignment, firefighters had already formed opinions about her. “It was impossible for me to keep a low profile,” she said. “Everybody knew my name. I had been getting death threats. I had to get an unlisted number … My picture had been in the paper. Everyone knew that I was a lawyer. So that gave them another reason to dislike me. They thought I was Jewish, so that was another reason—another unacceptable group—plus I wasn’t from New York.”1
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Nancy MacLean, “The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women’s Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class,” Feminist Studies, 25, No.1, Spring 1999. 43–44.
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LaTour, J. (2008). Double Vision: Breaking Down Doors at the FDNY. In: Sisters in the Brotherhoods. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614079_8
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