Hidden Figures Lesson Plan

What is the one project at Langley that head engineer Henry Reid credits every employee as having taken part in? How do you think this made the employees feel?

Henry Reid states that everybody in the laboratory ought to feel that they played a part in the bombing of Japan:

"The engineers who assisted, the mechanics and modelmakers who did their share, the computers who worked up the data, the secretaries who typed and retyped the results, and the janitors and maids who kept the tunnel clean and suitable for work all made their contribution to the final bombing of Japan."

Students should discuss how Langley employees may have felt about this. Shetterly explains...