Blue Dot

Blue Dot: NASA and Civil Rights: The complex story of racial justice and the space race


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Host Dave Schlom talks to three contributors to the book NASA and The Long Civil Rights Movement. Recently published for the first time as a paperback, the book is a collection of essays that came out of a symposium that drew on the expertise of historians to examine NASA's role in the deep south (and beyond) during the height of the space race and to the present day.
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Blue DotBy Dave Schlom, Matt Fidler

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