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Title Think black : a memoir / Clyde W. Ford.
Author Ford, Clyde W., author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, [2019]
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Edition First edition.
Description xii, 285 pages : 24 cm
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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 and index.
Contents First days -- A sacrificial pawn -- The bones of the machine -- The book of changes -- Voices of the dead -- To speak of rivers -- Honey pot 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.
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.
ocls african american bio
ISBN 9780062890566 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $25.99
0062890565 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780062890573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0062890573 (pbk. : alk. paper)