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Researcher: Lyndon Johnson saw NASA as a weapon against racism
Original: A key finding of my research on space & # CivilRights was that Lyndon Johnson believed # NASA could end Southern racism.
A researcher studying space and civil rights says Lyndon Johnson believed NASA could help end Southern racism, and that no historian had previously written about this finding. The work was featured in a Smithsonian Channel documentary in 2020, and a short clip from the program is circulating again, drawing fresh attention to Johnson's view of the space program as a tool for social change in the American South.
Why now: A documentary clip resurfacing has renewed interest in the little-known link between NASA and civil rights under Johnson.
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- A key finding of my research on space & # CivilRights was that Lyndon Johnson believed # NASA could end Southern racism. Oddly, no historian had ever written about this before. In 2020, the Smithsonian Channel included these findings in a documentary. This is a 2-minute clip… · SpaceHistory@sunny.garden · 11
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