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02452aim a2200517 i 4500 001 F2D03982A71E11EBB7E268FB48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210427010157 007 sd 008 201124s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1799946231 020 $a 9781799946236 020 $a 1799946223 020 $a 9781799946229 035 $a (OCoLC)1224128920 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Ford, Clyde W. 245 1 $a Think black $h [Audiobook CD] : $b a memoir / $c Clyde W. Ford. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York : $b HarperCollins, $c [2020] 300 $a 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 $a Read by Leon Nixon. 520 $a John Stanley Ford became IBM's first black software engineer. But not all of the company's white employees accepted having a black colleague and did everything in their power to humiliate, subvert, and undermine Ford. Yet Ford would not quit. While Ford remained at IBM, it came at great emotional cost to himself and his family, especially his son Clyde who followed him to IBM two decades later. As he, too, experienced the same institutional racism, Clyde began to better understand the subtle yet daring ways his father had fought back. 541 $d 20210107. 600 1 $a Ford, Clyde W $x Family. 600 1 $a Ford, John Stanley $d 1919-2000. 610 2 $a International Business Machines Corporation $x Employees $v Biography. 610 2 $a International Business Machines Corporation $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. 650 $a Fathers and sons $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture. 650 $a Software engineering $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 $a Engineers $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Discrimination in employment $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 $a African American engineers $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. 655 $a Audiobooks. 655 7 $a Biographies. 700 $a Nixon, Leon, $e narrator. 941 $a 2 945 $a cdab 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015607.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20210427030004.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2D03982A71E11EBB7E268FB48ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search