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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

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Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to attend an all-white college to get the qualifications needed to become an engineer. At every turn, these women…

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“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

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“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view”

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“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.”

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Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at…

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“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.”

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“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession…

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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the…

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“a lifetime of stories”

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“Insatiably curious about the world.”

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The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

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“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned to Langley beat. "Do you believe," she was asked, "that women working with men have to think like a man, work like a dog, and act like a lady?" "Yes, I do," Lee said, who was…

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“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.”

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