Written by Lexx Thornton Emeline King was Ford’s first Black woman designer-hired in 1983. She also worked on the 1989 Thunderbird-the wheel program, the 2000 Thunderbird, and designed cars in Europe. It was a dream she had had since she was a little girl, when her dad-Earnest King-a fabrication specialist at Ford, took her to the company Christmas party at the Design Center. “He said in order to get behind those blue doors-first of all, you have to be a transportation designer because there are men who sit behind these doors and they design cars,” she said. Right then, she
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