Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

school with Negroes,” one white parent
told a reporter. A total of ten thousand of
the shut-out students lived in Norfolk:
5,500 of those from military families
stationed at the naval base, white
students as well as black paying the price
for the state’s racial crusade.
Across the water from Norfolk, on the
peninsula that Langley called home,
public schools remained open but
segregated. Even as the barriers in their
parents’ workplace continued to erode,
the children of Langley’s black
employees returned to their fall routines
at Carver, Huntington, and Phenix, while
their white colleagues’ children went
back to Newport News High and
Hampton High. In their new home in
Mimosa Crescent, the Goble daughters
were now zoned to attend Hampton High