Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The black women who helped land a man on the moon

It all started with a mysterious photograph.

What it revealed was a special story: black women living in Jim Crow-era Virginia hired by NASA to do math and research that would launch men into space.

Read about this nearly-forgotten piece of history here:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-nearly-forgotten-story-of-the-black-women-who-helped-land-a-man-on-the-moon/2016/09/12/95f2d356-7504-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html