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Working For Equality - The Narrative of Harry Hudson (Hardcover)
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Working For Equality - The Narrative of Harry Hudson (Hardcover)
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"When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of
1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work."
With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American
supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft's Georgia facility, begins his
account of a thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil
rights movement and the Cold War. Hudson was not a civil rights
activist, yet he knew he was helping to break down racial barriers
that had long confined African Americans to lower-skilled,
nonsupervisory jobs. His previously unpublished memoir is an inside
account of both the racial integration of corporate America and the
struggles common to anyone climbing the postwar corporate ladder.
At Lockheed-Georgia, Hudson went on to become the first black
supervisor to manage an integrated crew and then the first black
purchasing agent. There were other "firsts" along the path to these
achievements, and Working for Equality is rich in details of
Hudson's work on the assembly line and in the back office. In both
circumstances, he contended with being not only a black man but a
light-skinned black man as he dealt with production goals,
personnel disputes, and other workday challenges. Randall Patton's
introduction places Hudson's story within the broader struggle of
workplace desegregation in America. Although Hudson is frank about
his experiences in a predominantly white workforce, Patton notes
that he remained "an organization man" who "expressed pride in his
contributions to Lockheed [and] the nation's defense effort."
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