If you've watched Hidden Figures, it depicts a scene where Katherine Johnson (Goble at the time) comes into her new office and is handed a trashcan from a white engineer with the order to empty it the next time. The following excerpt from the book describes the incident very differently with much less drama than the big screen, but it gives insight into Katherine's character. The room hummed with pre-lunch activity as Katherine surveyed it for a place to wait for her new bosses. She made a beeline for an empty cube, siting down next to an engineer, resting her belongings on the desk and offering the man her winning smile. As she sat, and before she could issue a greeting in her gentle southern cadence, the man gave her a sideways glance, got up, and walked away. Katherine watched the engineer disappear. Had she broken some unspoken rule? Could her mere presence have driven him away? It was a private and unobtrusive moment, one that failed to dent the rhythm of the o...