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Author:
Ford, Clyde W., author.
Title:
Think black : a memoir / Clyde W. Ford.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Amistadan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Biographies.
Notes:
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:
"The story of America's first Black engineer, his revolutionary son, and the corporation that destroyed their relationship"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0062890573
9780062890573
0062890565
9780062890566
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1079844460
LCCN:
2019010441
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

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