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    Ditching Andrew Jackson for Mary Jackson

    An elementary school in Utah will now be named for the first black female engineer at NASA, who was memorialized in <em>Hidden Figures</em>.
    by Marina Koren Feb 09, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: NASA Langley Research Center

    An elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a long time coming.

    Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will no longer be named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, whose slave ownership and treatment of Native Americans are often cited in the debate over memorializing historical figures associated with racism.

    Instead, the school will honor Mary Jackson, the first black female engineer at whose story, and the stories of others like her at the space agency, was chronicled in , a 2016 film

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