![]() ![]() The result is a time machine that marches, moment by moment, through the American aeronautics revolution and desegregation. Had I known these women existed, maybe I would have dreamed to be a rocket scientist? Shetterly also sorted through heaps of archival material on NACA and NASA. One clipping went as far as reporting what Mary Jackson wore at her wedding, she said. She checked local newspapers, especially ones for the black community, where she found her canvass for describing daily life in Hampton. Shetterly spent the next three years combing through historical documents. “But I didn’t know much about their particular stories - how they had come to work at NASA, or why there were black women working there.” Many of them worked with my dad, and I’d seen them growing up,” Shetterly told NewsHour. ![]() Eventually, the conversation drifted onto the black and white women who worked as mathematicians - so-called human computers - during the center’s early years. After church one day, she and her father began chatting about his days as a scientist at Hampton’s Langley Research Center - the first field facility for NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Writer Margot Lee Shetterly decided to pursue Hidden Figures in 2010, while visiting her parents for Christmas. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and hundreds of black female mathematicians who made crucial contributions to America’s space program.īut the narrative also charts how Hampton, Virginia emerged as a driving force for aeronautics innovation and racial integration - even as the state fought against the rise of civil rights. This bestselling biography-turned- Hollywood biopic reveals the untold story of Katherine G. Hidden Figures offers a counter-narrative of hope and a prescient blueprint for unity against what feels like a vicious cycle of inequality. Meanwhile, Jim Crow-era restrictions on social, economic and political mobility have evolved new facades, namely gentrification and gerrymandering. The rise of the alt-right, a white nationalist movement, echoes sentiments of public segregation once thought long gone. Viral stories of black killings, once occasional events, morphed into déjà vu in 2016 - potentially triggering PTSD-like trauma. If you’re a person of color in America right now, it may feel like you’re riding a carousel of darkness. ![]()
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