Sadly, I just didn’t get along with this book. I haven’t seen the film but it looks really good so I thought I’d enjoy the book. 6 September 2016, 373 pages, borrowed from via # POPSUGARReadingChallenge, an Anisfield-Wolf book award winner) Land worked as a computer out at Langley’ my father said, taking a right turn out of the parking lot of First Baptist Church in Hampton, Virginia. 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. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these were coteries of bright, talented African-American women. 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.
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