Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

CHAPTER FOUR
The Double V
Dorothy Vaughan entered the Greyhound
bus in one America and disembarked in
another, no less anxious, hopeful, and
excited than if she were an immigrant
arriving from foreign shores. The cluster
of cities and hamlets around the harbor of
Hampton Roads—Newport News and
Hampton to the north, Portsmouth,
Norfolk, and Virginia Beach to the south
—boiled over with in-migrants. The
region’s day as a rustic land had