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Everything You Need to Know About the True Story Behind ‘Hidden Figures’

5. Mary Jackson Was a Born Teacher

Before going to work at the NACA, Mary Jackson was a schoolteacher. Even after making the switch to West Area Computers, she would often advise her coworkers on how best to bolster their educational credits. “She discovered that occasionally it was something as simple as a lack of a couple of courses, or perhaps the location of the individual, or perhaps the assignments given them, and of course, the ever present glass ceiling that most women seemed to encounter.”

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