Sublime

upheld

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

from Africa to the

What would he do when someone called him “Boy” instead of “Mr. Ford”? How would he handle a manager who thought Negroes had no place in a corporation like IBM? Would he fight back when a group of engineers sought to foul a project to make him look bad?

conclude it was essential to wrestle with the existential question, Who am I as a Black man in a society that resents my very being? At

It’s a card I still have in my possession.

but it’s the same old ‘Keep the Colored man down’ world here.

Though he might not get there himself, he could provide a way so other Black men and women might reach the top ranks of IBM.