( RACISM IS THE ANSWER ). With its organizing principles of biological determinism, racism first
'politicized' our hair by burdening it with a range of negative social and psychological 'meanings'.
Democrats scorched the Republican administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower for allowing the United States to fall so far behind the communists. Eisenhower responded by speeding up the U.S. space program, which resulted in the launching of the satellite Explorer I on January 31, 1958. The “space race” had begun.
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