Working for equality : the narrative of Harry Hudson / Harry L. Hudson ; edited by Randall L. Patton ; foreword by Gavin Wright.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Harry L., 1925-2003, author.

Wright, Gavin, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Patton, Randall L., 1958- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American supervisors--Georgia--Biography.

African American supervisors.

African Americans--Georgia--Biography.

African Americans.

Discrimination in employment--Georgia--History--20th century.

Discrimination in employment.

African Americans--Georgia--Social conditions--20th century.

Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Lockheed-Georgia Company--Employees--Biography.

Lockheed-Georgia Company.

Hudson, Harry L., 1925-2003.

Hudson, Harry L.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia ; London, [England] : The University of Georgia Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 His previously unpublished memoir is an inside account of both the r

Contents:

""Cover""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""EDITOR�S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter One""; ""Chapter Two""; ""Chapter Three""; ""Chapter Four""; ""Chapter Five""; ""Chapter Six""; ""Chapter Seven""; ""Chapter Eight""; ""Chapter Nine""; ""Chapter Ten""; ""Chapter Eleven""; ""Chapter Twelve""; ""Chapter Thirteen""; ""Chapter Fourteen""; ""Chapter Fifteen""; ""Chapter Sixteen""; ""Chapter Seventeen""; ""Chapter Eighteen""; ""Chapter Nineteen""; ""Chapter Twenty""; ""Chapter Twenty One""; ""Chapter Twenty Two""; ""Chapter Twenty Three""; ""Chapter Twenty Four""

""EPILOGUE""""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820356884

0820356883

OCLC:

913695081