The Stentorians are a black fraternal organization of firefighters in the Los Angeles Fire Department that was founded in 1954. Firefighter Arnett Hartsfield, Jr. organized the Stentorians in response to the difficulties in the integration of the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD). The Central-Alameda neighborhood of South Los Angeles was an area of sprawling American Craftsmen Style homes of mostly white residents, which by 1930 had changed to predominantly black. By 1950 it was home to two historic all-black segregated fire stations (Fire Station No. 14 and Fire Station No. 30). By the 50’s the largest African-American newspaper on the West Coast, the California Eagle (1879–1964), owned and operated by Charlotta Bass, was taken over by its former writer turned City Editor, Lawyer Loren M