| Title: | German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era / |
| Authors: | Monique Laney, Author |
| Material Type: | eBook |
| Publisher: | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015 |
| Format: | 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) / ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Recipient of the 2015 Eugene M. Emme astronautical literature awards./ Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Languages: | English |
| Class number: | TL781.85.A1 |
| Subjects: | Aerospace engineer--United States--Biography ; Rocketry--Biography--20th century |
| Description: | This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers' families, co-workers, friends, and neighbours, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. |
| Format : | Online |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=10053 |
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