Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA

Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA — page 5
steal the viewers focus DATE UNKNOWN from the central image It is hard to say exactly when in the photo This time Annie Easley was cropped from the photograph of the the photographer cropped Computer Services Division at the Lewis Research Center out Easley the only black Easley did not mention the woman working alongside exact date in the interview she gave NASA historians but five white women Easley she started working at the lab in 1955 so the event must spoke to her supervisor have taken place sometime also a woman about what after that had happened Oh I don't blame you she said I'd be upset too I didn't feel like I'm a Although Easley had minority I'm out here to do a job and I knew I had her supervisor's sympathy the ability to do it and that's nothing was done At that where my focus was on getting the job done I was time there was no Office not intentionally trying to be a of Diversity and Equal pioneer Opportunity Today this Annie Easley NASA computer office is responsible for ensuring NASA gives all employees the same opportunities When Easley was cropped from the group photo there were no laws that made this type of discrimination illegal and there was no one to follow up on a complaint of this kind Just like that Easley was removed from view and hidden away