American - Writer | 1969 -
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.
Margot Lee Shetterly
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I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.
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I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.
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As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I'd seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be.
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My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist.
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Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
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My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
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I remember 'The Norfolk Journal and Guide,' which is a black newspaper that still exists, but it was really influential, as you can imagine, in the Forties, Fifties, and Sixties. But all of their archives are online and digitized, and it was a really great resource.
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Growing up in Hampton, the face of science was brown like mine.
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I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.
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I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.
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