Hidden Figures

Who is Virginia Tucker from the nonfiction book, Hidden Figures?

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Virginia Tucker was a white woman who was Langley’s Head Computer. She also worked as a recruiter and traveled the country looking for women who were qualified to work at Langley as computers. More than 400 women received training as computers while she was the Head Computer. When East Computing was disbanded, Virginia left NACA and took a job at the Northrop Corporation.

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