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[https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/detective/tukufu-zuberi/ by PBS Shows] | [https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/detective/tukufu-zuberi/ by PBS Shows] | ||
America has a long history of social upheaval and cultural mood swings. These shifts leave clear signs of their passing. The trick is knowing how to read the signs, and interpret their meaning. | America has a long history of social upheaval and cultural mood swings. These shifts leave clear signs of their passing. The trick is knowing how to read the signs, and interpret their meaning. | ||
=====Wernher von Braun’s Record on Civil Rights===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-von-braun-record-on-civil-rights/ by Steven Moss and Richard Paul PBS Shows] | |||
In June 1965, Alabama governor George C. Wallace scheduled a tour of NASA’s Huntsville, Alabama test site, the Marshall Space Flight Center. The visit was part of a road trip he organized for small town newspaper editors, designed to show them “the real Alabama.” Wallace had come into office promising "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" and backed up that promise by standing in the doorway of the University of Alabama to personally block African-American students from enrolling. | |||
