![]() ![]() They left their homes and their jobs as math teachers in segregated Southern public schools to join the all black West Computing” group at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia. ![]() In this nonfiction masterpiece, Margot Lee Shetterly tells the true story of four black female mathematicians, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, as well as their colleagues, which began during World War II. But this time, I had something different in mind: ”Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race”, a stunning work I had wanted to read since it was published in 2016. He was expecting a thriller, which is our usual fare for helping the miles go by. “What are we going to read, asked Simon as I cued up an audio book for the six-hour drive. It was our first trip back to New Bern since we moved to Greenville last December. ![]() The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race ![]()
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