Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

Virginia State Institute.
Income from the Coleman farm slowed
to a trickle during the hardscrabble years
of the Depression. Anxious for a way to
support the household and cover the cost
of the children’s education, Joshua
moved the family into town and accepted
a job as a bellman at the Greenbrier, the
country’s most exclusive resort. (It was
here, years later, that he met Dorothy
Vaughan’s husband, Howard.) The
enormous white-columned hotel, built in
the classical revival style, sprawled on a
manicured estate in the middle of White
Sulphur. Joseph and Rose Kennedy spent
their 1914 honeymoon in room 145 of the
hotel. Bing Crosby, the Duke of Windsor,
Lou Gehrig, Life magazine publisher
Henry Luce, actress Mary Pickford, a
young Malcolm Forbes, the emperor of