Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe--winner
Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award--winners Octavia Spencer and
Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and
the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of
NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial
role in America's space program--and whose contributions have been
unheralded, until now. Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil
Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as
"Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable
these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright,
talented African-American women. Segregated from their white
counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they
were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper
to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped
write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into
space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these
"computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA
executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and
reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest
adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the
experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined,
and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine
Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World
War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era,
the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement,
Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of scientific achievement
and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five
women whose work forever changed the world--and whose lives show
how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its
proudest moments.
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