READERS’ LETTERS
FROM HIDDEN TO HEROES
I enjoyed reading Hidden Figures by Jonny Wilkes (January 2018. Sad story of how Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, among others, were written out of history and not given proper credit for their achievements, until recently, because of the colour of their skin and their standing in society. These women played such an important part in one of humankind’s most amazing achievements, yet you will not see them in any official footage. Is now the time that we start to give more people from this time their rightful place in history?
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