On being a black female math whiz during the space race

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4. Yay!

There are so many unsung heroes out there like these women because the only description that we (POC) tend to "fit" are as criminals, no matter what background, education, occupation, or economic/financial status.

Both of my sisters' godmothers were math majors in college in the late '40s to early '50s and both were relegated to teaching in elementary schools in Philly despite having 2nd Ed. degrees, thanks to that good old white privilege thing. It wasn't until the '70s when one of them was finally able to break out and rise quickly up the district ranks at the school district HQ.

Here is the trailer for that film -

Thank you for posting this pwnmom! Didn't realize this was out there (surprise surprise). To quote Joe Madison -

In America, we are culturally conditioned to believe that white is superior, black is inferior, and the manifestation of that cultural conditioning is that blacks are undervalued, underestimated, and marginalized.