We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477311130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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This work broadens our understanding of this period of turmoil and change." (Lonnie Bunch, Founding Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture)"Wonderfully written and expertly researched, We Could Not Fail is a skillfully paced, real-life narrative of the surprising but profound impact African American engineers and technicians, NASA, and space exploration had on race and segregation in the Jim Crow south. Even history and space program buffs should find insight in We Could Not Fail's fresh look at a well-treaded era." (Esquire 2015-05-04)
His feature stories have appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition and PRI’s Studio 360.Steven Moss is Associate Professor of English at Texas State Technical College and a Fellow of the Kellogg Institute. . His master’s thesis, “NASA and Racial Equality in the South, 1961–1968” (Texas Tech Universi
Good read Happy buyer Very informative.. "great historical read" according to irishlass. A good comprehensive look into how NASA with its many locations in the South made inroads to help alleviate poverty for all Southerners and prejudice against blacks in the South. Of course, unfortunately, prejudice will never be totally eradicated; but this b. I loved reading this book because the story of big government J. Doherty What an eye opener for those of us who lived through the 1960s in the South, and thought we knew well all events there. I loved reading this book because the story of big government policy and wonderful ordinary men shows how history really happens. Even if i
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. 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. 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. 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.. .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. We Could Not Fail tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of how shooting for the st