Harriet Tubman's Hidden Figures: Hidden African-American Women At NASA

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." This quote by Harriet Tubman brings to light the importance of dreams and passion. In the past and present people have faced hate and discrimination. But with a passion and a will to do good, even with a disadvantage, they changed the world. The author of Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly reports on the stories of the hidden African-American women at NASA in the early to late twentieth century . Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn were just three of the amazing African-American women minds at NASA. Their story of overcoming the prejudice of this time period.

The world at the time expected even pushed women to stay at home, not get a further education and to be mothers. But many women working at NASA defied this unwritten rule and became the backbone of NASA. As Margot Lee Shetterly wrote in Hidden Figures, ”Many Langley engineer shared a dream: they wanted to design an aircraft capable of flying faster than the speed of sound. And the woman at Langley were no exception. They dreamed of the exciting possibility which was seemingly less far-fetched by the day to pursue this dream,...Their mission: to build the fastest airplane in the world, one that could fly faster than the speed of sound.” The women wanted to help to progress the world because of their passion for math Also stated in Hidden Figures,”Always curious, Katherine listened to everything her co-worker said. She read every word of Aviation Week, A magazine about flight. She drained every drop of knowledge from the engineers she worked with, but that was not enough. The real action, she knew, was taking place in the lectures and editorial meetings, those private closed-door