NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement - Hardcover

Brian C. Odom (editor) & Stephen P. Waring (author)

 
9780813066202: NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0813066204 ISBN 13: 9780813066202
Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2019

Synopsis

Examining the ways in which NASA’s goal of space exploration both conflicted and aligned with the cause of racial equality, this volume provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.

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About the Author

Brian C. Odom is a historian at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Stephen P. Waring, chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is coauthor of Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960–1990.

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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813066204
ISBN 13 
9780813066202
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224

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