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Author Ford, Clyde W., author.

Title Think black : a memoir / Clyde W. Ford.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 FORD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B FORD, CLYDE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 FORD, CLY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  004.092 FORD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-FORD, C.    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents First days -- A sacrificial pawn -- The bones of the machine -- The book of changes -- Voices of the dead -- To speak of rivers -- Honeypot traps -- Twice as hard -- The arrangement -- Doing small things in a great way -- Covert ops -- The king is dead -- Clandestine service -- A mass shooting at IBM -- The egg -- Leaving -- Long walks -- Epilogue: The words of a poet.
Summary "In 1946, John Stanley Ford was hired as IBM's first black software engineer. But many of the company's white employees refused to accept a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit, recognizing that he had an obligation to his race as a "first." Instead, he comported himself with dignity and professionalism, and relied on his community to succeed. While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son, Clyde. Overlooked for promotions he deserved, the embittered Ford began blaming his fate on his skin color, which painfully divided him and Clyde, who followed him to IBM two decades later. From his first day of work, Clyde made clear he was different. Only IBM hadn't changed. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back. It is a story of how a son came to appreciate his father and the sacrifices he made." -- publisher's description.
Subject Ford, John Stanley, 1919-2000.
Ford, Clyde W. -- Family.
International Business Machines Corporation -- Employees -- Biography.
International Business Machines Corporation -- History -- 20th century.
African American engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Software engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Fathers and sons -- United States -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural, Ethnic & Regional -- African American & Black.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
International Business Machines Corporation. (OCoLC)fst00539465
African American engineers. (OCoLC)fst00799145
Discrimination in employment. (OCoLC)fst00895050
Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
Engineers. (OCoLC)fst00910639
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
Software engineering. (OCoLC)fst01124185
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Ford, Clyde W. Think black. First edition. New York, NY : Amistad, [2019] 9780062890580 (DLC) 2019015865
ISBN 9780062890566 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0062890565 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780062890573 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0062890573 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780062890580 (ebook)
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