CSPAN2 Hidden Figures October 1, 2016
Untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. Hear her journey about writing this remarkable story that combines the rich intersection of the civil rights era, the space race, the cold war and the movement for gender equality. As an anthropologist with an admiration for history, i was curious about this date, september 8th. What happened with nasa on this date. So september 8th, 1967, the surveyor v launched. 1983, sat com vii launched. And today, september 8th, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book [laughter] Hidden Figures into the literary wor...
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