The first africanamericans in the Space Program. Moss i first heard about the africanamericans in the Space Program and nasas involvement with civil rights and racially quality when i was at texas tech in 1995. When i was doing research for a paper, i started noticing little back page articles about the sintins at huntsville. There is the Marshall Space Flight center in huntsville. Articles,smaller back page, two paragraphs, but they were all in nasa locations or nasa home states. I decided there had to be a connection, a bigger story. Nasa was the federal government under president kennedy and president johnson. They were advocates of desegregation or racial equality and equal employment. There have to be some story there. There were too many little threads not to have a whole sweater somewhere out there. There was more of a story than i was able to tell back in 1995 and 1996 and 1997. Thats what is shown in the book. The stories of these men, some of whom worked for nasa, or nasa con