03823nam 2200589 450 991081695540332120230629234137.00-8130-7248-40-8130-6520-80-8130-5732-9(CKB)4100000009590255(MiAaPQ)EBC5946153(StDuBDS)EDZ0002256676(MiAaPQ)EBC6926705(Au-PeEL)EBL6926705(EXLCZ)99410000000959025520220706e20222019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNASA and the long civil rights movement /edited by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. WaringGainesville, Florida :University Press of Florida,2022.©20191 online resource (267 pages)Florida scholarship onlineIncludes index.0-8130-6620-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement addresses the role/relationship of NASA and the Apollo program to the "long" civil rights movement in, particularly but not limited to, the Deep South (Huntsville, Florida, Houston, Mississippi, and New Orleans) and identifies the impact of NASA on the movement and the experiences of those who were directly affected by the space program and the impact of the movement on NASA's development during the Cold War.Florida scholarship online.National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the long civil rights movementCivil rights movementsUnited StatesAfrican American astronautsBlack lives matter movementPovertyUnited StatesCivil rights movementsAfrican American astronauts.Black lives matter movement.Poverty353.008778Odom Brian C.Waring Stephen P.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816955403321NASA and the long civil rights movement3986633UNINA