Testing [00:00]
Introduction [00:09]
Born at 6th and Jefferson [00:22]
St. John's / Augustine Church [00:52]
Joining the St. John Church [01:21]
Moved around with family and returned to Oakland [02:27]
Stream trains on 7th St. [3:16]
Worked in building at 14th and Clay as an elevator operator [03:32]
Took Oakland fire department examination in 1919 [04:56]
Firemen's working hours [05:30]
Firefighting platoons [06:18]
Firemen's pay [06:32]
Engine #3 at 8th and Willow St. [06:54]
Firefighter's horses [07:13]
Firefighter's steam pump [07:50]
Worked as fire engine driver [08:33]
First motorize fire engines [09:56]
Fire pole and alarm [10:28]
Taking a fire call [11:59]
Facing discrimination in fire department [13:04]
Working at fire engine in Chinatown [15:15]
Bath tubs and poles in old fire houses [16:20]
Fire engine #3 [16:45]
African American firemen in Oakland in the 1920s [17:25]
Three men working per shift [18:12]
Firemen and children in neighborhood [18:36]
Distributed flour sacks at fire station during Great Depression [19:21]
Fire department organization [20:20]
African American firemen wouldn't talk about discrimination [20:58]
Fire injuries [21:47]
Firemen's uniforms [22:17]
[23:03]
Firemen's tools [23:58]
First large fire - church at 12th and Clay St. [24:27]
First reaction to fire [24:40]
Gas masks [25:13]
Fire hoses [25:26]
Joking among firemen and fire spectators [26:03]
Bothered by dead bodies after fires [27:52]
Fires on skid row on Webster St. [28:36]
Horse show fire [29:21]
Lt. Towns and Engine #22 and punishing firemen [30:15]
C.L. Dellums and NAACP fight to integrate the fire department [31:18]
Work day routine and supplying gas to fire engines [32:13]
Supply house [35:19]
Retirement [36:57]
Encouraging men to become firemen, prohibiting card playing [37:45]
Number of African Americans employed in Oakland Fire Department [38:55]
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Written on front of tape: 4th Negro Fireman in Oakland 1920-1959
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