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Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures 1

The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Publication Date: 09/02/2017
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Set amid 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.

Before 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, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

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 mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

ISBN:
9780008201326
9780008201326
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-02-2017
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x23mm
Weight:
0.26kg

Margot Lee Shetterly

Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA’s female Human Computers.

She is one of the founders of Inside Mexico Magazine, an English-language magazine for Mexico’s expat population, and in her former lives worked as an Internet executive and an investment banker.

She splits her time between Hampton, Virginia and Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

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genuis amongest genius's , well written history of just three women,whose story only just been retold now in this book and film,their achievements againist the racial blocks put in their ways,and their breaking through those brockages,read their stories.

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