Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

had come economic security, and a
greater say in household affairs, which
put some women on collision courses
with their husbands. “Many husbands
will return home to find that the helpless
little wives they left behind have become
grown, independent women,” wrote
columnist Evelyn Mansfield Swann in the
Norfolk Journal and Guide.
With victory over the enemies from
without assured, Negroes took stock of
their own battlefield. Almost
immediately after V-J Day, some
employers returned to their white,
Gentile-only employment policies. The
FEPC, however feeble it might have
been in reality during the war, had
nonetheless become a powerful symbol
of employment progress for Negroes and
other ethnic minorities. With labor