Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft's Georgia facility, recalls his thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil rights movement and the Cold War. While not a civil rights activist, he knew he was helping to break down racial barriers that had long confined African Americans to lower-skilled jobs.

"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.