It made possible the work that came next-devoted and indispensable-from black women whose calculations allowed the country to successfully send astronauts into orbit, and to the moon and back. Roosevelt to sign Executive Order 8802, which prohibited racial discrimination in the national defense industry. The book begins in 1943 amid a World War II-driven labor shortage, leveraged by Civil Rights leader A.
Through hundreds of interviews and via thousands of documents, Shetterly tells their stories. Hidden Figures brings four particularly vivid women out of the shadows-Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden. But it took the fresh eyes of a visit home in 2010 to trigger Shetterly’s curiosity-then near-obsession-with the many black women mathematicians who had worked for NASA. Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Va., the daughter of two people with doctorates-Robert Benjamin Lee, a NASA research scientist, and Margaret G.
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