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Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
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April 19, 2025
This is the book important from a women's empowerment point of view as the state of Virginia is suffering from difference in color and white people and color doesn't have few rights 3 women rise from such an environment to do something extraordinary that changes point of View for the color Community in the state.
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 added machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This audiobook brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan became the first color supervisor of IBM machine ,Mary Jackson is the first color engineer to graduate from white school and make history, Katherine Johnson a mathematician who actually read between numbers and help John glenn and team land safely, and Christine Darden, is an American mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to research supersonic flight and sonic booms four African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
The show life is not fair to them but they bend the rules in their favour by sheer hardwork, dedication and love for the country and respect for the community and family they make it worth it. With over 4 decades of there life they helped NASA various operations and show the world a women can do better if equal opportunity is given without difference of Caste, creed, color and justice
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 added machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This audiobook brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan became the first color supervisor of IBM machine ,Mary Jackson is the first color engineer to graduate from white school and make history, Katherine Johnson a mathematician who actually read between numbers and help John glenn and team land safely, and Christine Darden, is an American mathematician, data analyst and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to research supersonic flight and sonic booms four African-American women who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
The show life is not fair to them but they bend the rules in their favour by sheer hardwork, dedication and love for the country and respect for the community and family they make it worth it. With over 4 decades of there life they helped NASA various operations and show the world a women can do better if equal opportunity is given without difference of Caste, creed, color and justice
May 9, 2017
great history. amazing stories. not told with drama simple facts that I never learned before.
October 15, 2017
Love this topic and so glad they made a movie of it! This is one of the first books I've read where I liked the movie better than the book, though.
November 19, 2017
A valuable history lesson. A valuable read for all. May be next pick for Book to Movie Club.
December 10, 2017
Very interesting, but there was almost too much information and jumping around. It was hard to keep track of all the people mentioned.
March 5, 2018
A fantastic look at little-known space race history.
June 30, 2018
interesting for the content alone. Was expecting a narrative POV whereas this was more a historical summary, but still a worthwhile read.
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