in 1954, firefighter arnett hartsfield, jr. founded the stentorians with a fraternal group of black firefighters. the organization took its name from the greek root, "stentor", (meaning a powerful voice). they espoused non-violence and adopted the slogan, "we only fight the department on integration." the stentorians determined that to protect the men a round-the-clock patrol would deploy to guard the black firefighters at fire station 10. cbs channel 2 news ran newscasts of recordings after a reporter provided the stentorians with special microphones to record the night-long hazings.