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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement (2019)

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Space programs Civil rights National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronauts African Americans Public policy 20th century 21st century United States

As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. Essays provide new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad. NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement offers important lessons from history as today's activists grapple with the distance between social movements like Black Lives Matter and scientific ambitions such as NASA's mission to Mars.

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Review Tyler Peterson (2021) Review of "NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement". Journal of American History (p. 423). unapi

Review Neil M. Maher (2021) Review of "NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 632-634). unapi

Review Neil M. Maher (2021) Review of "NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 632-634). unapi

Review Gavin Wright (January 2021) Review of "NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement". Technology and Culture (pp. 301-302). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ward, Jonathan H.
Schaefer, Agnes Schaefer
Candacy A. Taylor
Berney, Barbara
Parker, Traci
Marcia Chatelain
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Social History of Medicine
Journal of American History
History and Technology
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Publishers
Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton and Company
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications, NASA History Program Office
Abrams Press
University of Georgia Press
The University of North Carolina Press
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Concepts
African Americans
Civil rights
Space programs
African Americans and science
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Segregation
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Richmond, Virginia
Southern states (U.S.)
Appalachian region (North America)
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
Institutions
McDonald's Corporation
Project Mercury (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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