The West Area Computing Unit (West Area Computers) is the name of an all-African American group of female mathematicians that existed at the NASA Langley Research Center from 1943 through 1958. The group, a subset of the hundreds of female mathematicians who began careers in aeronautical research during World War II, was originally subject to Virginia's Jim Crow laws, requiring them to use segregated bathroom and cafeterias.
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