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Leighann Garber
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It mentions that even the USO was segregated into white, blacks and jews.
Having to attach a photo to your job application.
The audacity of restaurants banning blacks and serving German pows.. while they were expected to die for a country that was treating them much like the jews
So exciting and scary to be all together and working on incredible things with amazing people
— Nov 10, 2026 10:47PM
Having to attach a photo to your job application.
The audacity of restaurants banning blacks and serving German pows.. while they were expected to die for a country that was treating them much like the jews
So exciting and scary to be all together and working on incredible things with amazing people
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Leighann Garber
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This story of Black women, Black people building the America we know and what they gave and went through to make it happen is so good to read right now after all the historic wins
WWII dramas never talk about segregation and how it affected every facet of life, especially in the south but also overseas
The black entrance for the bus not even making logical sense is so typical of these kinds of policies
— Nov 10, 2026 10:42PM
WWII dramas never talk about segregation and how it affected every facet of life, especially in the south but also overseas
The black entrance for the bus not even making logical sense is so typical of these kinds of policies
Leighann Garber
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Good point- the brilliant Black scholars couldn't teach at white schools so the Black schools got incredible professors, even tho they were smaller and poorer in most cases.
— Oct 28, 2026 10:10PM
Leighann Garber
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Ths us hiring hundreds of black women during wwii to do math, while they have to segregate the bathroom, sounds so out of place i wouldn't believe it not knowing this book/movie
But a whole bunch of the engineers, coders and military who design weapons and work for the government are trans in this 2026 hostile world. There are a lot of parallels and overlapping reasons. Fascinating
— Oct 28, 2026 01:44PM
But a whole bunch of the engineers, coders and military who design weapons and work for the government are trans in this 2026 hostile world. There are a lot of parallels and overlapping reasons. Fascinating
Leighann Garber
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The book took 6 years to research and write and had a movie option before it was completed. Mind blown
— Oct 27, 2026 10:06PM
Leighann Garber
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Already hooked in the prologue
She (author is a Black woman) grew up with a church full of mathematicians and "so many African Americans working in science, math and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did'
Wow
I grew up around rich white people
And later moved around poor white people who are also largely ignorant and uneducated. I don't know any mathematicians . This is so cool
— Oct 27, 2026 09:54PM
She (author is a Black woman) grew up with a church full of mathematicians and "so many African Americans working in science, math and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did'
Wow
I grew up around rich white people
And later moved around poor white people who are also largely ignorant and uneducated. I don't know any mathematicians . This is so cool