Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson

Hudson tells a very interesting story, and his firsthand account of the problems and issues that he faced as one of the company's first African American employees, as well as one of its first African American supervisors and buyers, provides a personal and historical perspective on how African...

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Published inJournal of Southern History Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 741 - 742
Main Author Dulaney, W. Marvin
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 01.08.2017
Southern Historical Association
Subjects
African Americans
Aircraft industry
Armed forces
Autobiographies
Employment
Labor force
Learning
Negotiation
Occupations
Racism
Success
Supervisors
Atlanta Georgia
United States > US
Georgia
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Summary:Hudson tells a very interesting story, and his firsthand account of the problems and issues that he faced as one of the company's first African American employees, as well as one of its first African American supervisors and buyers, provides a personal and historical perspective on how African Americans integrated the nation' s industrial labor force. [...]when Lockheed negotiated building an aircraft plant in Georgia, the NAACP and the Atlanta Urban League lobbied the company' s management to obtain jobs for African Americans above semiskilled and general labor. Hudson and the other members of his crew succeeded in learning to build airplanes just like white workers and proved that with training African American workers could achieve or exceed the same level of success and quality of production in the industry as white workers.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893
DOI:10.1353/soh.2017.0228