Dorothy Glinton worked at Ford Motor Company's Chicago Assembly Plant for 30 years. She was one of the first women to hold a management position at the company. Glinton came to StoryCorps, in Chicago, to tell her son, Sonari, how she came to work at Ford. She describes the working conditions at the plant as awful and decided that she would apply for a job in management. She was hired but soon faced discrimination from other male employees. In the mid-1990s, after working at Ford for 16 years, she was laid off while other workers at the plant with less seniority were transfered to other places. Glinton decided to file a lawsuit. After settling the suit, Glinton went back to work at the plant, and served on Ford's Diversity Council. She retired earlier this year. StoryCorps Griot is an initiative to record interviews between everyday African Americans across the United States. In West African tradition, the griot is a storyteller who preserves cultural identity and passes it on from generation to generation. The StoryCorps Griot booth is traveling from coast-to-coast collecting these interviews, which will be archived in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Dorothy Glinton worked at Ford Motor Company's Chicago Assembly Plant for 30 years. She was one of the first women to hold a management position at the company. Glinton came to StoryCorps, in Chicago, to tell her son, Sonari, how she came to work at Ford. She describes the working conditions at the plant as awful and decided that she would apply for a job in management. She was hired but soon faced discrimination from other male employees. In the mid-1990s, after working at Ford for 16 years, she was laid off while other workers at the plant with less seniority were transfered to other places. Glinton decided to file a lawsuit. After settling the suit, Glinton went back to work at the plant, and served on Ford's Diversity Council. She retired earlier this year. StoryCorps Griot is an initiative to record interviews between everyday African Americans across the United States. In West African tradition, the griot is a storyteller who preserves cultural identity and passes it on from generation to generation. The StoryCorps Griot booth is traveling from coast-to-coast collecting these interviews, which will be archived in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.