Movie Reality: NASA names DC HQ after 'Hidden Figure' Mary Jackson
NASA names DC HQ after 'Hidden Figure' Mary Jackson, its first Black female engineer:
"Jackson was one of the four Black women whose stories were told in the 2016 book "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race." That book was then adapted into a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe.
Jackson, along with Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden and Dorothy Vaughan, each received Congressional gold medals, the highest civilian award in the United States, in December, when President Donald Trump signed the “Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act" into law."
- Courtney Pomeroy, WJLA
Hunter
Back because a Wise Man said to me, "We're all fallible, and recognizing our own errors is just part of the learning process."