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As a boy Martin Luther King, Jr., played basketball behind Fire Station No. 6 and watched the white crews go out on calls. He and his friends knew that they could not dream of becoming firefighters because of the city’s segregation laws. Finally, in 1963, 16 blacks were allowed to join the paid force, and, a few years later, Station 6 became the city’s first integrated station. Station 6 was also remembered as a meeting place for neighborhood children, a place to get information and help, and a vital part of the community. The city’s first black firefighters worked at Station 16 in Southwest Atlanta. Firefighters mustered at Station 6 in 1928.
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