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Commends Margot Lee Shetterly, a Hampton native and Charlottesville resident, for her acclaimed book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures reached number one on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers list and won Best Nonfiction Book at the 2017 NAACP Image Awards

Shetterly served as executive producer for the Hollywood film adaptation, which received three nominations at the 89th Academy Awards in 2017

Founded The Human Computer Project to document untold stories of women who worked as mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and computers at NACA and NASA between the 1930s and 1980s

Directs the Clerk of the House of Delegates to prepare a copy of the resolution for presentation to Shetterly