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After a five-year legal battle that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court, Frank Ricci and 13 fellow firefighters moved one step closer to getting the promotions they were deprived of.

Ricci (at center in top photo) and 19 other mostly white firefighters sued the city when it threw out the results of a 2003 promotional test because African-Americans performed poorly.

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