A new book profiles ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. The book is We Could Not Fail. It recounts 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. WCAI’s Mindy Todd talks with the authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss.
profile ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. 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. - See more at: http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/we-could-not-fail#sthash.rAcC1qaY.dpuf
A new book profiles ten pioneer African American space workers whose stories illustrate the role NASA and the space program played in promoting civil rights. We Could Not Fail recounts 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. WCAI’s Mindy Todd talks with the authors Richard Paul and Steven Moss.
