Steven Moss Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC-250

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, and research material for We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program

Dates

Creation: 1990 - 2020

Creator

Moss, Steven (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Conditions Governing Use

This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.

Biographical / Historical

Steven Moss (December 24, 1962) is the co-writer of the book “We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program” as well as an Associate Professor at Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas. He earned his master's degree from Texas Tech university where his thesis “NASA and Racial Equality in the South, 1961-1968" was one of the first academic works to examine the rise of NASA as well as the space race and how it intersected with Civil Rights. Building upon this research, Moss collaborated with Richard Paul—a Washington, DC based independent radio producer and author—to write the aforementioned “We Could Not Fail.”

His work illustrates the recruitment of African American engineers, technicians, and mathematicians to the U.S. Space Program in the 1960s.

Extent

1 Linear feet (1 Box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Steven Moss, 2025.

Processing Information

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