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Bill Recognizing ‘Hidden Figures’ Headed to the White House to be Signed Into Law

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Bill Recognizing ‘Hidden Figures’ Headed to the White House to be Signed Into Law

A bipartisan bill that will award Congressional Gold Medals to NASA’s ‘Hidden Figures‘ has passed through Congress and is heading to the White House to be signed into law. The Congressional Gold Medals will be given to Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine Darden and the posthumously award Congressional Gold Medals to Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.  The lives and careers of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden were featured in the book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, by Margot Lee Shetterly. That book...

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