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Title:
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We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program /
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Authors:
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Richard Paul, Author ;
Steven Moss, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Edition statement:
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First edition.
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Publisher:
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[S.l.] : University of Texas Press, 2015
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-0-292-77249-6
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Size:
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x, 300 pages / ill. / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL521.312
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Subjects:
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African American engineers--Biography
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Astronauts--Biography
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Discrimination in employment--United States
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United States--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography--Officials and employees
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Description:
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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 programme 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.
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