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Hidden Figures

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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Hidden Figures

Auteur(s): Margot Lee Shetterly
Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
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The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.

Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.

Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.

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I neglected to write a review of this book when I read it, but even years later I remember the story quite vividly. These were very smart women, and they pioneered the mathematical calculations that were necessary to space travel, before computers were available to automate the process. The fact that they were black women to boot, makes the story even more compelling. This is an important story that deserves to have a spotlight shone on it.

These women enabled space travel

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I struggled immensely to finish listen. The narrator is good, but rather boring. Do not recommend. The story is more about women, Blacks in particular, and their struggles, then about NASA & space program

Not at all what I expected

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It shows that awesomeness comes in shapes and sizes like us. We need all the awesomeness we can get!

It's about time we heard this wonderful story

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A riveting story of one of the previously untold historical narratives of the USA

Exceptional!

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I wanted to like this book so much. The subject is great. The story that should be told here is a fantastic one, and more people need to know it. However I feel the author took some artistic liberties when presenting it that I found disingenuous. There are interpretations of the daily life of some of the people we're following that are not really justifiably part of the daily record (EG things they were thinking or feeling) that I think were added to give it a sense of dramatic presence, but this isn't actually a dramatization. Or...if it IS meant to be a dramatization, then it doesn't go far enough. I feel the author should have committed to being a non-fiction documentation, or a dramatization, but instead presents as the former, while trying to borrow from the latter for a bit of reading punch.

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Great topic, poorly presented

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