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The 2016 film Hidden Figures revealed the stories
of female African-American mathematicians at
Nasa in the 1960s. Ellie Cawthorne spoke to the
author Margot Lee Shetterly, whose book
inspired the film, about the real-life women who
broke through the era’s racial and gender prejudices
FIGURES
The real women at Nasa who
inspired the film Hidden Figures
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