TY - BOOK ID - 19448484 TI - Working for Equality AU - Hudson, Harry AU - Patton, Randall L PY - 2015 SN - 0820348007 0820348384 9780820348384 0820356883 9780820348001 9780820356884 PB - Athens University of Georgia Press DB - UniCat KW - African American supervisors KW - African Americans KW - Discrimination in employment KW - Civil rights KW - Afro-Americans KW - Black Americans KW - Colored people (United States) KW - Negroes KW - Africans KW - Ethnology KW - Blacks KW - Bias, Job KW - Employment discrimination KW - Equal employment opportunity KW - Equal opportunity in employment KW - Fair employment practice KW - Job bias KW - Job discrimination KW - Race discrimination in employment KW - Employment (Economic theory) KW - Affirmative action programs KW - Afro-American supervisors KW - Supervisors, African American KW - Supervisors KW - Basic rights KW - Civil liberties KW - Constitutional rights KW - Fundamental rights KW - Rights, Civil KW - Constitutional law KW - Human rights KW - Political persecution KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Law and legislation KW - Hudson, Harry L., KW - Lockheed-Georgia Company KW - Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company KW - Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. KW - Lockheed-Georgia KW - Gelac KW - Employees KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - E-books KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19448484 AB - "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 His previously unpublished memoir is an inside account of both the r ER -