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DescriptionWe Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program by Richard Paul, Steven Moss English | PDF | 312 Pages | ISBN-10: 0292772491 | ISBN-13: 978-0292772496  1 May 2015 | Discrimination in employment CONTENTS Preface Introduction 1. A Man of Firsts: Julius Montgomery 2. “There Was a Lot of History There”: Theodis Ray 3. Stronger Than Steel: Frank Crossley 4. Dixie’s Role in the Space Age 5. First of Race in Space: Ed Dwight 6. The View from Space: George Carruthers 7. “Huntsville, It Has Always Been Unique”: Delano Hyder and Richard Hall 8. The Country Spartacus: Clyde Foster 9. Water Walkers: Morgan Watson and George Bourda Conclusion Appendix: Relevant Census Numbers on Employed Professional and Skilled Labor for NASA Host States Notes Acknowledgments Index Excerpt: Julius Montgomery’s first day in the space program was lonely and terrifying. Walking down the dusty road past the squat wooden buildings at the entrance to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Montgomery was entering a place that would soon come to embody the very idea of Tomorrow in the American imagination. But what he faced that day in 1956 was a dispiriting combination of the sad and hateful present, tinged with the bitter history of yesterday. Montgomery was the first African American hired as anything other than a janitor at the Cape, but he shouldered a burden other racial pioneers did not. His experience was unlike that of Jackie Robinson when he integrated baseball, unlike that of the Little Rock Nine, who just weeks later would integrate Central High School in Little Rock, unlike that of Guy Bluford and Mae Jemison as they waved and boarded the space shuttle. As he made his way to the building that housed the RCA Development Lab, there were no reporters along to watch, no columnist from the black press cheering and urging progress. There was no one from the National Urban League or the NAACP standing by to o er legal or moral support. Julius Montgomery was completely and utterly alone. Reaching the lab, he swung the door open and there faced a roomful of angry white men. Sharing Widget |