Dave 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.
Guests include the book's editor, NASA Historian Brian Odom, Cathleen Lewis, curator for the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum and University of Wisconsin history professor Brenda Plummer. From the first black engineers to the first African American astronaut Guion Bluford it's a complex and vital discussion about one of the nation's premier agencies that now strives for diversity and inclusion as it plans to head back to the Moon with the Artemis program.
