NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement /

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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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Other Authors: Waring, Stephen P. (Editor), Odom, Brian C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Appropriations and expenditures.
Poverty.
Expenditures, Public.
Civil rights movements.
Black lives matter movement.
African American astronauts.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Pauvrete > États-Unis.
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
Astronautes noirs americains.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis.
Poverty > United States.
Civil rights movements > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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