LEADER 04326nam 2200673 450 001 9910787598403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-77250-5 024 7 $a10.7560/772496 035 $a(CKB)3710000000356160 035 $a(EBL)3571920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001441307 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12550096 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001441307 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11393984 035 $a(PQKB)11440388 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571920 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571920 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11022826 035 $a(OCoLC)905856348 035 $a(DE-B1597)588065 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808024 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292772502 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000356160 100 $a20150304h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWe could not fail $ethe first African Americans in the space program /$fRichard Paul & Steven Moss 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-292-77249-1 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""1. A Man of Firsts: Julius Montgomery""; ""2. "There Was a Lot ofHistory There": Theodis Ray""; ""3. Stronger Than Steel: Frank Crossley""; ""4. Dixie's Role in the Space Age""; ""5. First of Race in Space: Ed Dwight""; ""6. The View from Space: George Carruthers""; ""7. "Huntsville, It Has Always Been Unique": Delano Hyder and Richard Hall""; ""8. The Country Spartacus: Clyde Foster""; ""9. Water Walkers: Morgan Watson and George Bourda""; ""Conclusion"" 327 $a""Appendix. Relevant Census Numbers on Employed Professional and Skilled Labor for NASA Host States""""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Index"" 330 $a.The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal employment opportunity laws to open workplaces at NASA and NASA contractors to African Americans while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty. We Could Not Fail tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of how shooting for the stars helped to overcome segregation on earth. Richard Paul and Steven Moss profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. They recount how these technicians, mathematicians, engineers, and an astronaut candidate surmounted barriers to move, in some cases literally, from the cotton fields to the launching pad. The authors vividly describe what it was like to be the sole African American in a NASA work group and how these brave and determined men also helped to transform Southern society by integrating colleges, patenting new inventions, holding elective office, and reviving and governing defunct towns. Adding new names to the roster of civil rights heroes and a new chapter to the story of space exploration, We Could Not Fail demonstrates how African Americans broke the color barrier by competing successfully at the highest level of American intellectual and technological achievement. 606 $aAfrican American professional employees$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American engineers$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American astronauts$vBiography 606 $aDiscrimination in employment$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRace discrimination$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American professional employees 615 0$aAfrican American engineers 615 0$aAfrican American astronauts 615 0$aDiscrimination in employment$xHistory 615 0$aRace discrimination$xHistory 676 $a629.4092/396073 700 $aPaul$b Richard$f1959-$01502409 702 $aMoss$b Steven$f1962- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787598403321 996 $aWe could not fail$93730150 997 $aUNINA