werner von braun was already there. a lot of people, a lot of engineers and scientists have descended on alabama. the city wanted to disassociate itself from the rather races of the rest of the state, and that help them to negotiate this quietly. so, yakima from the beginning i had memories. civil-rights activists. after the voting civil-rights act passes and the voting act, they turned to politics. i grew up looking. that's the national democratic party. i have memories. my father ran for governor against george wallace in 1970. i just had these memories of my summers being taken all around the state, particularly the black. those counties that were the center of the plantation economy during antebellum marron, not surprising 100 years later, all the black votes. and it felt like particularly during that election in 1970 and that felt like that had been carried to every black church in the black belts. and i watched my father give this speech over and over and over again, invoking frederick. that famous line that's whe

there were, you know, werner von braun was already there. a lot of people to have a lot of engineers and scientists had descended on alabama. and the city wanted to disassociate themselves from the rabid race imagery of the rest of the state, and that helped them. you know, they negotiated this quietly. so, yes. from the beginning i have memories. my parents were civil rights activists. after the of voting civil-rights act passed some of voting at, then it turned to politics. i grew out looking in tpa stance, part of the national democratic party. i had memories. my father ran for governor against george wallace in 1970. i just have these memories of my summers being taken all around the state, particularly the black part of state. those counties that were the center of the plantation economy during antebellum era, not surprising a hundred years later all the black votes were. and it fell like particularly during that election, 1970, it felt like i had been carried to every black church in the black belt. i watched my father give this speech

james webb row two german rocket pioneer werner von braun who headed the center and was the chief engineerof the entire man's space program. the letter boldly and bluntly directs von braun to address the lack of equal employment opportunities for black people and to collaborate with the area colleges alabama a&m and tuskegee to identify, train and recruit qualified black engineers into the nassau -- nassau family. in 1964 you and i had not turned six when i saw picketers outside the newly built apartment complex of our choice in the riverdale section of the bronx. they were protesting to prevent families mine included from moving. i'm glad their efforts failed. these buildings were called or haps prophetically the sky view apartments on who's worth 22 stories above the bronx i would later train my telescope on the universe. my father was active in the civil rights movement, working under new york city's bayer to create job opportunities for youth in the ghetto as the inner city was called back then. year after year the forces operating against us were huge. poor schools, bad teachers abjec