Seeing The Message In Hidden Figures

For me Hidden Figures wasn't just a story about black women...

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NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at NASA Langley Research Center.

For me, Hidden Figures wasn't just a story about black women pioneering in NASA's space program, or even women making ground in women rights movement. Not to downplay or take any credit away from Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson or Dorothy Vaughan. What I saw, is what we can do as Americans if we can stop criticizing each other and trying to hold each other back based on our differences but focus on our strengths and let each other do what we can do as a whole.

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1,500 employees or so at NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory on November 4, 1943. Photo