Women & Minority Communities

Women's Army Corps (WAC)

Date:

Friday, April 27, 2018

The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) was established during World War II as the women’s branch of the U.S. Army.

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Norma Gross working on an experiment.
WACs at Los Alamos.
Myrtle Bachelder, 1942.
Jane working with another WAC, Oak Ridge.
Jane at work with Parsons, Oak Ridge.
Jane's Special Orders Document, 1946.
WAC Yearbook Photo, 1945.
Arlene G. Scheidenhelm. Photo courtesy of Joseph Gorman.

Hispanos in Los Alamos

Date:

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Although frequently omitted from official histories, Hispanos have served in pivotal positions at Los Alamos since its inception.

The Human Computers of Los Alamos

Date:

Friday, May 26, 2017

Before computers became the modern electric desktops or laptops of today, “computers” actually referred to the people who did computing or calculations of equations.

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Jean Dow Bacher
Kay Manley
Augusta "Mici" Teller
Geoffrey Chew
Katherine Johnson (Subject of Hidden Figures) doing hand calculations at NASA in 1966.
Photo Credit: NASA Langley Research Center
SEDs at Los Alamos.

Native Americans and the Manhattan Project

Date:

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Many of the communities established during the Manhattan Project relied on Native American cooperation.

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Pueblo dancers performing for Manhattan Project employees. Photo courtesy of the Robert JS Brown Collection.
Marie Herrera with Peter Bretscher, photo courtesy of the Churchill College Archives
Pueblo women and children at Los Alamos. Photo courtesy of the Robert JS Brown collection
Music at a Pueblo gathering. Photo courtesy of the Robert JS Brown collection.

African Americans and the Manhattan Project

Date:

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

African Americans played an important, though often overlooked, role on the Manhattan Project.

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Black female performer during Christmas at Hanford
African-American construction workers at Hanford
Scarboro School girls' basketball team
Segregation at Oak Ridge
Democratic Party meeting near Oak Ridge, 1946
J. Ernest Wilkins at a special event in his honor at the University of Chicago in March 2007