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1. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › forgotten-blackThe True Story of "Hidden Figures," the Forgotten Women Who ...

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   Sep 8, 2016 · “These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary,” says Margot Lee Shetterly. Her new book Hidden Figures shines light on the inner details of these women’s lives and...

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     Margot Lee Shetterly On Her Inspiration For Writing "Hidden Figures"

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4. www.vice.com › en › articleThe ‘Hidden Figures’ of NASA’s Early Years and the Woman Who ...

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   Jan 16, 2017 · Motherboard talks to author Margot Lee Shetterly about the legacy of pioneering black women mathematicians who helped NASA win the Space Race.

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   Jan 6, 2017 · Hidden Figures: Directed by Theodore Melfi. With Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner. Three female African-American mathematicians play a pivotal role in astronaut John Glenn's launch into orbit.

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   Before a computer became an inanimate object and before Sputnik changed the course of history, before the Supreme Court case Brown v.Board of Education established that separate was in fact not equal, and before the poetry of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech rang out over the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a group of black women working at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical ...

7. www.theguardian.com › books › 2017Hidden figures: the history of Nasa’s black female scientists

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   Feb 7, 2017 · The diversity of Nasa’s workforce in 1940s Virginia is uncovered in a new book by Margot Lee Shetterly. She recalls how a visit to her home town led to a revelation

8. www.amazon.co.uk › Hidden-Figures-Story-BlackHidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the ...

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   In this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as "colored computers," and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career.

   • Author: Margot Lee Shetterly

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   Who is Margot Lee Shetterly?

   • Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

   Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

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   Where did Shetterly live?

   • Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, in the 1970s, Shetterly lived just miles away from Langley. Built in 1917, this research complex was the headquarters for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which was intended to turn the floundering flying gadgets of the day into war machines.

   The True Story of "Hidden Figures," the Forgotten Women Who Helped …

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   What problems did Shetterly face?

   • It was these small battles and daily minutiae that Shetterly strove to capture in her book. And outside of the workplace, they faced many more problems, including segregated busses and dilapidated schools. Many struggled to find housing in Hampton.

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10. www.instagram.com › margotleeshetterly(@margotleeshetterly) • Instagram photos and videos

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    3,054 Followers, 43 Following, 62 Posts - @margotleeshetterly on Instagram: "Author of Hidden Figures."