Harry Hudson – författare

“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 His previously unpublished memoir is an inside account of both the racial integration of corporate America and the struggles common to anyone climbing the postwar corporate ladder. At Lockheed-Georgia, Hudson went on to become the first black supervisor to manage an integrated crew and then the first black purchasing agent. There were other “firsts” along the path to these achievements, and Working for Equality is rich in details of Hudson’s work on the assembly line and in the back office. In both circumstances, he contended with being not only a black man but a light-skinned black man as he dealt with production goals, personnel disputes, and other workday challenges.Randall Patton’s introduction places Hudson’s story within the broader struggle of workplace desegregation in America. Although Hudson is frank about his experiences in a predominantly white workforce, Patton notes that he remained “an organization man” who “expressed pride in his contributions to Lockheed [and] the nation’s defense effort.”

Harlan doesn''t start fights. He ends them. 

Bouncer, Biker, Outlaw, Avenger. Revered and feared in equal measure. 

A respected member of the notorious Satan''s Security MC, Harlan lives by his own moral code and always protects his own. 

When an upmarket wine bar is taken over by thugs to stage a series of sleazy strip shows, the owner turns in desperation to a man he''s never met. Harlan. 

Harlan agrees to help but quickly realises he''s not dealing with amateurs. This is an organised crime gang with greed at its very core. 

Can he save the wine bar, protect the vulnerable young girls who have been forced to strip, and bring down whoever is pulling the strings? 

The odds are firmly stacked against him but Harlan wouldn''t have it any other way.