Play Book Tag discussion

Hidden Figures “brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, 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. ~Goodreads

The ladies of Hidden Figures were the human computers, the brains, or the mathematicians behind what is now NASA during a time when our space program needed them most. They had two strikes against them during the 1940’s…. they were women and they were African American. These two things didn’t mesh well with the working class of the 40’s. This was a heavy time of segregation and women just didn’t do this type of work then. At most, women were schoolteachers (which is where some of these women started out at). But these women were smart, determined and courageous. They proved that anything could be achieved if one set their mind to it. And they did math, complicated math, without the help of computers…. they were the computers.

I really enjoyed this book. It’s a very inspiring book for Young Readers.