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Stentorians
Organization of African American firefighters based in Los Angeles, California
The Stentorians are a fraternal organization of African Americanfirefighters, based in Los Angeles, California, and founded in 1954.
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Background
The residents of the Central-Alameda neighborhood of South Los Angeles were initially mostly white. By 1930, the neighborhood had changed to predominantly black. By 1950, it was home to two all-black, segregated fire stations (Fire Station No.
14 and Fire Station No. 30). The Fire Chief Engineer of Los Angeles, John Alderson, was regarded by black residents as a staunch segregationist who was preventing the integration of the LAFD.
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After the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and other cases, Alderson asked the Los Angeles city attorney whether the decision affected his department, and was told that it did. Based on this, Alderson assigned black firefighters from the segregated fire stations to all-white fire h