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Archives and Special Collections Finding Aids
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| Collection |
| Title: | Boston Society of Vulcans of Massachusetts records |
| Dates: | 1951-2004 (bulk 1970-2000) |
| Call Number: | M131 |
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Scope and Content Note
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The collection documents the administrative and public efforts of the Boston Society of Vulcans to raise the number of minorities in the Boston Fire Department; to support and council minorities within the fire service; to promote and teach fire safety, CPR, and community first aid training in designated high-risk neighborhoods; and to serve as a watchdog entity for the concerns of minorities employed within the fire service.
Record types include organizational correspondence, legal documentation, budget reports, newspaper clippings, fundraising material, negatives, photographs, audiocassettes, newsletters, documents from the annual Lloyd Phillips Scholarship, and memorabilia. The International Association of Black Professional Firefighters is made up of many individual organizations similar to the BSV, this collection also documents the activities of those organizations and the IABPFF. Also documented is the International Association for Black Professional Firefighters' function as the leader of member organizations such as the Boston Society of Vulcans, as well as many of the other member organizations that made up the IABPFF.
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