Nasa and the Long Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

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<p><strong><span>Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award</span></strong><span></span></p><p><strong><span><br></span></strong></p>&#10;&#10;<p><span>As&#10;NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American&#10;leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund &#8220;space joyrides&#8221; rather&#10;than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home. This volume&#10;examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA&#8217;s goal of space&#10;exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality. It provides new insights&#10;into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights&#10;movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.</span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><span>&#65279;</span><span></span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><span>Essays&#10;explore how thousands of jobs created during the space race offered new&#10;opportunities for minorities in places like Huntsville, Alabama, while at the&#10;same time segregation at NASA&#8217;s satellite tracking station in South Africa led&#10;to that facility&#8217;s closure. Other topics include black skepticism toward NASA&#8217;s&#10;framing of space exploration as &#8220;for the benefit of all mankind,&#8221; NASA&#8217;s track&#10;record in hiring women and minorities, and the efforts of black activists to&#10;increase minority access to education that would lead to greater participation&#10;in the space program. The volume also addresses how to best find and preserve&#10;archival evidence of African American contributions that are missing from&#10;narratives of space exploration.</span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><span>&#65279;</span><span></span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><em><span>NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement</span></em><span>&#160;offers&#10;important lessons from history as today&#8217;s activists grapple with the distance&#10;between social movements like Black Lives Matter and scientific ambitions such&#10;as NASA&#8217;s mission to Mars. &#160;</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Contributors:</span></b><span> P.J. Blount | Jonathan Coopersmith | Matthew&#10;L. Downs | Eric Fenrich | Cathleen Lewis | Cyrus Mody | David S. Molina | Brian&#10;C. Odom | Brenda Plummer | Christina K. Roberts | Keith Snedegar | Stephen P.&#10;Waring | Margaret A. Weitekamp&#160;</span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><span>&#65279;&#65279;</span><span></span></p>&#10;&#10;<p><strong><span>Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining&#10;the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National&#10;Endowment for the Humanities.</span></strong><span></span></p>

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