Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

lessings of democracy was the feature
that most defined their existence in
America. Every Sunday they made their
way to their sanctuaries and fervently
prayed to the Lord to send them a sign
that democracy would come to them.
When American democracy beckoned
them again, after the attack on Pearl
Harbor, they closed ranks, as they had
done in the Revolutionary War, the Civil
War, the Spanish-American War, World
War I, and every other American war;
they geared up to fight, for their country’s
future and for their own. The black
churches, the black sororities and
fraternities, the Urban League, the
National Council of Negro Women, Les
Femmes Sans Souci, the Bachelor-
Benedicts, black colleges across the
country—they moved with an