NASA and the long civil rights movement

NASA and the long civil rights movement /

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...

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Other Authors: Odom, Brian C. (Editor), Waring, Stephen P. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2019
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Appropriations and expenditures.
Civil rights movements > United States.
African American astronauts.
Black lives matter movement.
Poverty > United States.
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