Ryan W. Miller from USA Today covers one woman’s quest to tell the stories of black women in science.
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Montage of images from Wikimedia Commons: June Bacon-Bercey (top left), Vivienne Malone-Mayes (center), Euphemia Lofton Haynes (top right), Jessie Isabelle Price (bottom right), then Ensign, Evelyn J. Fields (bottom left). (Photo: Hilda Bastian)
You may have never heard of these black female scientists, but one woman is looking to bring their images back to life.
With the help of Twitter, Hilda Bastian (@MissingSciFaces) has worked for the past two months to uncover pictures and stories of prominent, but under-represented scientists.
With the tales of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson made famous by the recent book and movie Hidden Figures, Bastian hopes to spread the untold stories of many others.
So far, Bastian and the network she’s created have uncovered more than 20 pictures. She’s currently working on a larger list of scientists — of all minority backgrounds — whose photos and stories remain largely unknown.
