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1. How did Shetterly's childhood affect the way she thought of blacks working in science, math, and engineering?

Because her father worked at Langley, Shetterly grew up around many blacks who also worked at Langley. She knew so many blacks who worked as scientists, mathematicians, and engineers that she thought that their jobs were just what regular blacks did.

2. What does Shetterly want for the women she writes about in Hidden Figures?

Shetterly wants the stories of the women in Hidden Figures to be told as a part of history, not separately as African American women's history or even as women's history, but as a part of the big story of American history.

3. Why was it necessary for Melvin Butler to begin hiring black women as computers?

Melving Butler began hiring black women as computers because of the shortage in the workforce caused by World War II. Men were a part of the military effort and white women were already doing the jobs vacated by men who left to be in the service, so black women were the population that was left to work as computers.

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