Black Firefighters In Chicago Helped Give The World The Fire Pole

Today in 1872, the Chicago Tribune reported on the launch of a new fire station that would change the profession of firefighting forever by inventing the fire pole. Plus: around this time in 2002, the Supreme Court in Finland ruled that cab drivers would have to pay royalties for musicians (!) In response to White Chicagoans mocking the first Black fire crew in 1872, they wanted to prove themselves as good, if not better (Chicago Tribune) Finland's cabbies face the music (The Guardian) Slide on into our Patreon community as a backer