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Ford, Clyde W., author.
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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.
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Think black : a memo...
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Think black : a memoir / Clyde W. Ford.
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Ford, Clyde W., author.
New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
Subjects
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.
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9780062890566 (hardcover ; alk. paper) :
0062890565 (hardcover ; alk. paper) :
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xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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.
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"In 1946, John Stanley Ford was hired as the 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." --
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620.0092 Ford Fo
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