"Come to think of it...we have a BLACK PRESIDENT...but...when was the last time we had a "BLACK ASTRONAUT"! Are we where we should be?....YOU TELL ME...DID I MISS SOMETHING?
via Resist racism by resistance on 1/30/11
Part 932.
Before Dr. Ronald E. McNair was an astronaut, he was a little boy who lived in Lake City, South Carolina. And the Lake City library did not allow African Americans to borrow books. Nine-year-old McNair refused to leave the library and the police were called.
Now the library is being renamed after him.
McNair was the second African American astronaut in space. He held a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and was a specialist in laser physics. What a loss it would have been if he had never been allowed to borrow those books.
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