Dorothy Glinton and Sonari Glinton

“I got to find a job I can do for thirty years in this place.”

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Dorothy Glinton tells her son, Sonari, about becoming a manager at Ford Motor Plant in Chicago.

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Recorded in Chicago, IL.

Dorothy Glinton and Sonari Glinton

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Illinois, Illinoisians, IL, Chicago, Chicagoans, Midwesterners, Sons, Mothers, work, motor plant, assembly line, Ford motor company, employees, management, female employees, women, laid off, lawsuits, perseverance, sexism, discrimination, african-americans, Griot, African Americans, Blacks, education, glass ceiling

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