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Hidden figures by margot shetterly5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() She’s so good that she was accepted into a master’s program in mathematics and completed the summer session of it. They accept her into their program, even though it requires that she move away from her family to do so.Īt the same time, Katherine Coleman is a math major at West Virginia. One day she sees an advertisement for jobs at the NACA (National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics) and applies. She’s married with children and comes from a respected black family. ![]() In 1942, a woman named Dorothy Vaughan is working as a math teacher and also in the laundry room of an Air Force base. Some black female computers are placed at a separate office called West Area. However, Jim Crow laws are also still in place which means that Hampton is segregated. At that time, women were commonly called “computers” and they’re hired by NACA. In 1943, during World War II, Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia seeks to hire hundreds of junior mathematicians and physicists to help with aeronautical research as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). ![]() 1-Page Summary of Hidden Figures Overall Summary ![]()
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