Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: Ford, Clyde W., author. Title: Think black : a memoir / Clyde W. Ford. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Amistad, [2019] 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. Subjects: Ford, Clyde W. -- Family. Ford, John Stanley, 1919-2000. 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. Genre: Autobiographies. 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. LCCN: 2019010441 ISBN: 9780062890566 Other Number: 1079844460 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 814395 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: BIO Ford Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
