Edwin Kilgore, Newport News, VA; April 3, 2014.
Elizabeth Kittrell, Yorktown, VA.
Kathaleen Land, Hampton, VA; December 19, 2010.
Janet Mackenzie, October 9, 2015, Newport News, VA.
Katherine Goble Moore, Greensboro, NC: April 13, 2014; July 7, 2014; February 7, 2015.
Christine Richie, Newport News, VA.
Debbie Schwarz Simpson; September 12, 2012.
Sharon Stack, Gloucester, VA; April 22, 2014.
Elizabeth Kittrell Taylor, Yorktown, VA; July 12, 2014.
Donna Speller Turner, March 8, 2014.
Kenneth Vaughan, Hampton, VA; April 2, 2014.
Leonard Vaughan, Hampton, VA; April 23, 2014.
Michelle Webb, Hampton, VA; February 19, 2016.
Barbara Weigel, Newport News, VA.
Jerry Woodfill, Houston, TX.
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPTS
Unpublished Documents
Beck, Harold. “Project Mercury Planning Activities from 1958 through 1962,” May 2016. Unpublished document in author’s possession.
Beck, Harold. “Organization Timeline,” May 2016.
Champine, Gloria. He’s Got the Right Stuff, 2014.
Fox, Dewey W. A Brief Sketch of the Life of Miss Dorothy L. Johnson. West Virginia African Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Convention, 1926. Pamphlet in author’s possession.
Jackson, Mary. Obituary.
Newsome Park Reunion, September 12, 2005.
Newsome Park Reunion: The Legacy of a Village, September 6, 2006.
“Notes on Space Technology,” Langley Research Center, 1958, NTRS, http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740074640.pdf.
Vaughan, Dorothy. Biography, undated.
SELECTED BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Anderson, Jervis. A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.
Baals, Donald D. and William R. Corliss. Wind Tunnels of NASA. Washington, DC: NASA History Office, 1981.
Becker, John V. The High Speed Frontier: Case Histories of Four NACA Programs, 1920–1950. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1980.
Bilstein, Roger. Orders of Magnitude: A History of the NACA and NASA, 1915–1990. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1989.
Blood, Kathryn. Negro Women War Workers. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1945.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Burgess, Colin. Friendship 7: The Epic Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn, Jr. New York: Springer Praxis Books, 2015.
Carpenter, M. Scott, Cooper, Gordon L. et al. We Seven by the Astronauts Themselves. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
Chambers, Joseph R. The Cave of the Winds: The Remarkable Story of the Langley Full-Scale Wind Tunnel. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2014.
Clauser, F. H. Preliminary Design of a World Circling Spaceship. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp., 1947.
Conte, Robert S. The History of the Greenbrier: America’s Resort. Parkersburg, PA: Trans Allegheny Books, 1989.
Cooper, Henry S. F. Jr. Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Davis, Thulani. 1959. New York: Grove Press, 1992.
Deighton, Len. Goodbye Mickey Mouse. New York: Knopf, 1982.
Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Engs, Robert Francis. Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861–1890. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1979.
Fairfax, Colita Nichols. Hampton, Virginia. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
Fries, Sylvia Doughty. NASA Engineers in the Age of Apollo. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992.
Gass, Saul I. “Project Mercury Real-Time Computation and Data Flow System.” Washington DC: International Business Machines Corporation, 1961. https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/afips/1961/5059/00/50590033.pdf.
Golemba, Beverly E. “Human Computers: The Women in Aeronautical Research.” PhD dissertation, St. Leo College, 1994, available at NASA Cultural Resources, http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/crgis/images/c/c7/Golemba.pdf.
Grier, David Alan. When Computers Were Human. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Grimwood, J. M., C. C. Alexander, and L. S. Swenson Jr. This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966.
Hansen, James R. Engineer in Charge: A History of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, 1917–1958. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1987.
Hansen, James R. Spaceflight Revolution: NASA Langley Research Center from Sputnik to Apollo. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995.
Harris, Ruth Bates. Harlem Princess: The Story of Harry Delanay’s Daughter. New York: Vantage Press, 1991.
Herman, Arthur. Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2012.
Holt, Natalia. Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. New York: Little, Brown, 2016.
Hoover, Dorothy. A Layman Looks With Love At Her Church. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1970.
Kalme, Albert P. “Racial Desegregation and Integration in American Education: The Case History of West Virginia State College, 1891–1973.” PhD dissertation, University of Ottawa, 1976.
Kessler, James H. et al. Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1996.
Kraft, Christopher C. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. New York: Dutton, 2001.
Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Krislov, Samuel. The Negro in Federal Employment: The Quest for Equal Opportunity. New Orleans: Quid Pro Quo Books, 2012.
Lewis, Earl. In Their Own Interests: Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Margo, Robert. Race and Schooling in the South, 1880–1950: An Economic History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.
Marsh, Charles F., ed. The Hampton Roads Communities in World War II. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1951/2011.
McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
McNeil, Genna Rae. Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights. Philadelphia: University of Pennysylvania Press, 1983.
Michener, James A. Space: A Novel. New York: Random House, 1982.
Moulton, Forest Ray. Celestial Mechanics. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914.
Muse, Benjamin. Virginia’s Massive Resistance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1956.
Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. New York: Harper, 1944.
Pearcy, Arthur. Flying the Frontiers: NACA and NASA Experimental Aircraft. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993.
Phillipps, William Hewitt. Journey in Aeronautical Research: A Career at NASA Langley Research Center. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1998.
Phillipps, William Hewitt. Journey into Space Research: Continuation of a Career at NASA Langley Research Center. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005.
Powers, Sheryll Goecke. Women in Flight Research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center from 1946 through 1995. Washington, DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1997.
Reginald, William. The Road to Victory: A History of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II. Newport News, VA: City of Newport News, 1946.
Rice, Connie Park. Our Monongalia: A History of African Americans in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Terra Alta, WV: Headline Books, 1999.