Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race,” was selected for “One Book One Northwestern” for 2019-20 because the academic year also marks 150 years of women at Northwestern. The book chronicling their story is proof that they were. The women achieved those successes because they were confident they were as capable as anyone else. The number one question Shetterly is asked about her bestselling book is “Why haven’t I heard of these women before?” 17 on both the Chicago and Evanston campuses for the One Book One Northwestern event featuring Shetterly at a time when the University is marking 150 years since women could enroll as Northwestern undergraduate students. Those lessons inspired members of the Northwestern community who gathered Oct. Furthermore, these protagonists had to overcome barriers of race and gender.
That key advice helped inspire the African-American mathematicians and engineers in the book to achieve path-breaking successes at NASA at a time when America was mired in the struggle for civil rights. The most inspirational lesson author Margot Lee Shetterly learned in writing her book “Hidden Figures” came from the father of NASA’s Katherine Johnson, who told his daughter, “You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you.”
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