![]() ![]() The long, spacious back matter is part of the story, with detailed chapter notes and a bibliography.” –Booklist ![]() The chatty, immediate style (“Picture this”) and full-page photos make for a fast read, and the crucial civil-rights history will stay with readers. This dramatic, large-size photo-essay covers their stories, along with the exciting politics of the women’s liberation struggle in the 1950s and ’60s (“What is a woman’s place?”) and the breakthrough science and technology surrounding space exploration, including details of the would-be astronauts’ tests and training. officially admitted women into the astronaut program, 13 women, known as the Mercury 13, fought for the right to soar into space. If they were to let women into the space program, blacks and other minorities would be next. Male astronauts did not want them, and neither did then vice-president Lyndon Johnson. Who do these women think they are?” The media mocked them. ![]()
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