Title
In the Shadows of Apollo: The Space Age Legacies of Dispossession in Hancock County, Mississippi
Author ORCID Identifier
Year of Publication
2020
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department
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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