Stephen P Waring

Gebundenes Buch

NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement

Beschreibung

Examining the ways in which NASA's goal of space exploration both conflicted and aligned with the cause of racial equality, this volume provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and abroad.

Autor

Brian C. Odom is a historian at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Stephen P. Waring, chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is coauthor of Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960–1990.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780813066202
• ISBN-10: 0813066204
• Artikelnr.: 56275254