Think Black: A Memoir

“If We Must Die,” in which he exhorted Blacks to “face the murderous, cowardly pack, pressed to the wall,

Qualified Blacks at all levels could be found, if high-tech firms wished to find them.22

Of the one hundred songs listed in the company’s official songbook, Songs of the IBM,6 many, like “Ever Onward,” were simply odes to Watson,

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founding member of a new organization called 100 Black Men. The

1927 Supreme Court

America had failed me, and I did all I could to distance myself from her dominant White culture. At first, my parents thought this reaction

My father fretted that the divorce filings depicted him as a “homo.” He moved out of our apartment and into his own in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan.

Twice my parents entered into a relationship with each other that was arranged more by honor, duty, deceit, deception, and guilt than by love.