Sheila Minor Huff’s sex and her skin colour seemed to be her undoing, despite her national achievements as a scientist.
Sheila’s case is reminiscent of some unsung Black professional women such as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated the flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions; a supervisor with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dorothy Vaughan; and NASA engineer, Mary Jackson, whose roles in America’s incursion into space only became common knowledge through the 2016 American biographical drama film, Hidden Figures.
Sheila had to wait a little bit more after the Hidden Figures for her own unveiling and well-deserved recognition.
So, when Candace Jean Andersen came across a photo of a group of people at a 1971 science conference in Virginia, she noticed that the only…
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