Margot Lee Shetterly: The Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

At the dawn of the Space Age, talented African American women used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to help calculate the equations and flight paths for what would become some of our greatest space missions—even as they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws. In Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race author Margot Lee Shetterly tells a tale of technological innovation and inspiring life stories. This program and student matinee are generously underwritten by Baxter International Inc. and the Lohengrin Foundation.

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