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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement (Hardcover)
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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. It provides new insights into
the complex relationship between the space program and the civil
rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.Essays explore how
thousands of jobs created during the space race offered new
opportunities for minorities in places like Huntsville, Alabama,
while at the same time segregation at NASA's satellite tracking
station in South Africa led to that facility's closure. Other
topics include black skepticism toward NASA's framing of space
exploration as "for the benefit of all mankind," NASA's track
record in hiring women and minorities, and the efforts of black
activists to increase minority access to education that would lead
to greater participation in the space program. The volume also
addresses how to best find and preserve archival evidence of
African American contributions that are missing from narratives of
space exploration.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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