The jazz band played in the basement of the speakeasy, and Clara...

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The jazz band played in the basement of the speakeasy, and Clara Dubois danced as though the fate of the world depended on it—perhaps because it did.

New York, 1927. The Great Migration had brought thousands of African Americans north from the segregated South, and Clara was among them—a brilliant young physicist from Chicago, educated at the University of Chicago despite the relentless prejudice that surrounded her at every turn. She had spent the last decade working on a classified government project, one that most people did not even know...

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