NASA and the long civil rights movement /

NASA and the long civil rights movement / edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring.

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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...

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

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Call Number: TL521.312 .N363 2019
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