‘Hidden Figures’ Women Could Be Awarded Congressional Medal

HAMPTON, Va. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The U.S. Senate may award a Congressional Gold Medal to the women portrayed in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures.”
The Daily Press is reporting that the award would go to Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, and posthumously to Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan.
A man reads “Hidden Figures”, by Margot Lee Shetterly. The novel is the true story of Africian American female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of the U