Came across all these different gems of information that could have been the highlight of my career now. Coauthor richard paul and stephen moss took about ten africanamericans that broke the color barrier at nasa and the use of the Space Program by kennedy and johnson to advance the social change. When its up for the presentation we are here to talk about the book we couldnt fail the space Station Program it looks at the role in the civil rights in the years before the rights act happened. Discrimination was not against the law. It was easy. When we talk about the achievements of the people in the book and when we talk about the rules put in place by the Kennedy Administration to try to address the Workplace Discrimination at how they were implemented. So we will be talking about the people whose lives were touched. Our book tells the stories of ten men who came to work in the Space Program during the years that we call the Civil Rights Era and some of them were nasa employees. At the
Mr. Rawls ok, ladies and gentlemen, lets convene the panel. It has been a good day so far. Please, during the course of the has somebody got the video or something going . If you could turn that off, that would be great. We will reconvene the panel. It has been a good day so far. What we will do is recognize you when you raise your hand. Wait for the microphone. If you have a question, it should be referred to one of the panelists. Please designate that, and please try to stick to questions rather than statements. Let me start with a question that we got in virtual space. Iy name is mike howell, and am president of the brunswick civil war roundtable in south carolina. We are, i believe, the largest roundtable in the u. S. Ive gone to Great Lengths to keep politics out of the roundtable. This topic, monuments, has both elements of history and politics. What do you think should be the role of roundtables, if any, on this issue . A very goodhat was question, and i would broaden it who kno
It looks at nasas role in civil rights in the years before the Civil Rights Act pass. Before the Civil Rights Act passed discrimination was not against of law. It was legal to say no, you cannot use this toilet, you are black or you cannot come into this restaurant, you are black and that is an important distinction that will become even more important as we talk about the achievements of some of the people in this book. We will be talking about the rules put in place by the tonedy administration address discrimination and how they were implemented by nasa and its contractors. We will be talking about the people whose lives were touched those rules. Our books tell the story of men most of them who came to work at the program during the civil some were nasa employees and some of them worked for contractors. President kennedy was forced into dealing with outerspace at the same time and forced into dealing with civil rights. These are not things he talked about during the campaign. He did
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