Literature , Fiction
Hidden Figures
The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet 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 ae~Human Computersae(tm), 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 ae~colored computersae(tm) used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASAae(tm)s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the womenae(tm)s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankindae(tm)s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- William Collins
- 2016
- 346
- Paperback
- 9780008201326
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