Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

The Stability Research Division, where
Dorothy Hoover worked, was a
particular target, as Perl had been a
member of the group before leaving for
Cleveland.
The investigation tapped into veins of
anti-Semitism that flowed just under the
racial prejudice at the laboratory and in
the community. Quietly, some laboratory
employees complained about the “New
York communist people” and the
“practically impossible New York Jews”
recruited to work at Langley. A Jewish
computer who had invited her Negro
college roommate down to Virginia for a
weekend visit caused a scandal. The
progressives of the Stability Research
group, regardless of their actual political
practices, were certainly open to
accusations of subversion for their