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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement by Stephen P. Waring (editor), Brian C. Odom (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement about?
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 Sout
Who reads NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen P. Waring (editor), Brian C. Odom (editor)
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813065205
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Social Science, Social Sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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