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American History Tellers
The Rise and Fall of NASA
Historians Richard Paul and Stephen Moss show how Johnson had hoped to use the power of a massive high-profile federal agency to desegregate the south. The Apollo program was decentralized, only a relatively small fraction of the 400,000 people working in the space program worked directly for NASA. But NASA nevertheless insisted that it's more than 20,000 contractors follow equal opportunity hiring rules. Unlike NASA itself, the contractors managed to find black employees for all levels of their organizations.
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