As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home.
It provides new insights into the complex relationship between the space program and the Civil Rights Movement in the Jim Crow Sout.
This volume examines such tensions as well as the ways in which NASA\'s goal of space exploration aligned with the cause of racial equality.
As NASA prepared for the launch of Apollo 11 in July 1969, many African American leaders protested the billions of dollars used to fund "space joyrides" rather than help tackle poverty, inequality, and discrimination at home