and michael marshall [applause] former vulcan society president said discussion was moderated by tom robbins from the graduate school of journalism and has been a columnist here at the voice and the daily news and the observer and has written many highly acclaimed stories on urban issues. he will reap from the book then we will have time for questions and so please join me to welcome all these people to this stage. [applause] >> good evening. thanks for coming also to agree night bookstore and c-span in case you don't know who's to. that is still man and michael robins i will do a quick reading to pick up part way through the book headed segues for europe to parts of the history that these into this story of the founder of the association one of the first black firefighters in manhattan from 1919 and how he found his way and it will segue between his story and of modern day vulcans and the civil lawsuit in 2005 and the department of justice was involved so we pick up with the history of paul and michael and this is when they used to go out in the '90s into recruitment in the streets of brook

former president and fdny advocate the discussion will be moderated by tom robbins who teaches at theschool of journalism. he has written many highly us the claim stories. otis will reap from the book, powell by a discussion of the panelists and then we'll have time for discussion so please join me in welcoming all these the people to the stage. [applause]. >> good evening, thank you for coming. thank you to green light bookstore for hosting us as well. and for c-span for covering this. in case you don't know who's who, that's tom, captain washington, lieutenant marshall. i'm going to do a quick reading for you tonight. i will pick up part way through the book, the book actually segues through two parts of the balkans history. , it leads in the story of the founder of the vulcan association, leslie williams who is one of the writers in manhattan. the third that we know department wide. and how he found his way into the fire department. it also segues between his story and that this civil rights lawsuit they brought starting around 2005. so we are picking up in one of the chapters that