"Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, reads a passage from her book to an audience of mostly Washington DC public school students, Wednesday December 14, 2016 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The film, of the same name, based on the book, chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) Hidden Figures Book Event (NHQ201612140018)

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