Friday, April 7th 2017, at 4:15pm, in Room 1107 of VCU's Academic Learning Commons (1000 Floyd Avenue, Richmond VA), Christine Darden, one of the aeronautical engineers who inspired Margot Lee Shetterly's book "Hidden Figures: the Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race," will speak at VCU.
Free, open to the public. The venue is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms.
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Book talk, "Hidden Figures" with Margot Lee Shetterly: Library of Virginia
Tuesday, October 2th 2016, from 5:30-7:30pm, at the Library of Virginia (800 East Broad Street, Richmond VA), author Margot Lee Shetterly will speak on her new book, Hidden Figures, which tells the story of the pioneering African American women who did the calculations (by hand!) that made space flight possible, in a time when Jim Crow laws ensured that NASA was segregated.
Wine and cheese reception from 5:30-6pm, book talk from 6-7pm, and book signing from 7-7:30pm.
No cost is listed. To RSVP, see the link.
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