Title
In the Shadows of Apollo: The Space Age Legacies of Dispossession in Hancock County, Mississippi
Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
11-24-2020
Year of Publication
2020
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
History
First Advisor
Dr. Kathryn Newfont
Abstract
In the Piney Woods of Mississippi, John C. Stennis used political connections to displace small communities in a 150,000-acre space in Hancock County, Mississippi for the creation of a rocket test facility for NASA. What became the John C. Stennis Space Center created a narrative that preached of the benefits of the facility in the region while local residents from the displaced communities remember the facility in different terms.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2020.496
Recommended Citation
Simms, Stuart, "In the Shadows of Apollo: The Space Age Legacies of Dispossession in Hancock County, Mississippi" (2020). Theses and Dissertations--History. 63.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/63
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