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Title NASA and the long civil rights movement / edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring.
Publisher Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2019.



Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations.
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Contents Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring -- New frameworks -- Space history matures -- and reaches a crossroads / Margaret A. Weitekamp -- Bringing mankind to the moon: the human rights narrative in the space age / P.J. Blount and David Miguel Molina -- Bringing the moon to mankind: the civil rights narrative and the space age / David Miguel Molina and P.J. Blount -- Southern context -- The newest South: race and space on the Dixie frontier / Brenda Plummer -- "Accommodating the forces of change": civil rights and economic development in space age Huntsville, Alabama / Matthew L. Downs -- NASA, the Association of Huntsville Area Contractors, and equal employment opportunity in the "Rocket City," 1963-1965 / Brian C. Odom -- International context -- Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Guion Bluford: the last cold war race battle / Cathleen Lewis -- The Congressional Black Caucus and the closure of NASA's satellite tracking station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa / Keith Snedegar -- Broader context -- "A competence which should be used": NASA, social movements, and social problems in the 1970s / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- The gates of opportunity : NASA, black activism, and educational access / Eric Fenrich -- "Petite engineer likes math, music" / Christina K. Roberts -- Conclusion: "And where do we go from here?" ensuring the past and future history of space / Jonathan Coopersmith.
ISBN 9780813057323 (electronic book)
0813057329 (electronic book)
9780813066202 hardcover alkaline paper
0813066204 hardcover alkaline paper
9780813065205 (ebook)
0813065208 (ebook)
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Subject 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.
Alt author Odom, Brian C., editor.
Waring, Stephen P., editor.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring -- New frameworks -- Space history matures -- and reaches a crossroads / Margaret A. Weitekamp -- Bringing mankind to the moon: the human rights narrative in the space age / P.J. Blount and David Miguel Molina -- Bringing the moon to mankind: the civil rights narrative and the space age / David Miguel Molina and P.J. Blount -- Southern context -- The newest South: race and space on the Dixie frontier / Brenda Plummer -- "Accommodating the forces of change": civil rights and economic development in space age Huntsville, Alabama / Matthew L. Downs -- NASA, the Association of Huntsville Area Contractors, and equal employment opportunity in the "Rocket City," 1963-1965 / Brian C. Odom -- International context -- Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Guion Bluford: the last cold war race battle / Cathleen Lewis -- The Congressional Black Caucus and the closure of NASA's satellite tracking station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa / Keith Snedegar -- Broader context -- "A competence which should be used": NASA, social movements, and social problems in the 1970s / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- The gates of opportunity : NASA, black activism, and educational access / Eric Fenrich -- "Petite engineer likes math, music" / Christina K. Roberts -- Conclusion: "And where do we go from here?" ensuring the past and future history of space / Jonathan Coopersmith.
ISBN 9780813057323 (electronic book)
0813057329 (electronic book)
9780813066202 hardcover alkaline paper
0813066204 hardcover alkaline paper
9780813065205 (ebook)
0813065208 (ebook)
Subject 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.
Alt author Odom, Brian C., editor.
Waring, Stephen P., editor.

Subject 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.
Descript 1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : illustrations.
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring -- New frameworks -- Space history matures -- and reaches a crossroads / Margaret A. Weitekamp -- Bringing mankind to the moon: the human rights narrative in the space age / P.J. Blount and David Miguel Molina -- Bringing the moon to mankind: the civil rights narrative and the space age / David Miguel Molina and P.J. Blount -- Southern context -- The newest South: race and space on the Dixie frontier / Brenda Plummer -- "Accommodating the forces of change": civil rights and economic development in space age Huntsville, Alabama / Matthew L. Downs -- NASA, the Association of Huntsville Area Contractors, and equal employment opportunity in the "Rocket City," 1963-1965 / Brian C. Odom -- International context -- Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez and Guion Bluford: the last cold war race battle / Cathleen Lewis -- The Congressional Black Caucus and the closure of NASA's satellite tracking station at Hartebeesthoek, South Africa / Keith Snedegar -- Broader context -- "A competence which should be used": NASA, social movements, and social problems in the 1970s / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- The gates of opportunity : NASA, black activism, and educational access / Eric Fenrich -- "Petite engineer likes math, music" / Christina K. Roberts -- Conclusion: "And where do we go from here?" ensuring the past and future history of space / Jonathan Coopersmith.
Alt author Odom, Brian C., editor.
Waring, Stephen P., editor.
ISBN 9780813057323 (electronic book)
0813057329 (electronic book)
9780813066202 hardcover alkaline paper
0813066204 hardcover alkaline paper
9780813065205 (ebook)
0813065208 (ebook)

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