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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Odom, Brian C. (Editor), Waring, Stephen P. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Astronautes noirs américains.
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
Pauvreté > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African American astronauts
Black lives matter movement
Civil rights movements
Expenditures, Public
Poverty
United States
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