HIDDEN FIGURES - Summarized for Busy People

The American Dream and the Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly

• Author(s): Goldmine Reads,
• Publisher: Goldmine Reads
• Pages: 90
• Language: en
• Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Astronomy , Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Astronomy , Science / Space Science , Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Exploration , Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera , Juvenile Nonfiction / Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science , Young Adult Nonfiction / Technology / Aeronautics, Astronautics & Space Science , History / Revolutionary ,

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This book summary and analysis was created for individuals who want to extract the essential contents and are too busy to go through the full version. This book is not intended to replace the original book. Instead, we highly encourage you to buy the full version.

In Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly reveals the real-life stories of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden — the black women of NASA who braved the insurmountable and conquered the impossible.

Even with Virginia's Jim Crow imposing segregation laws, these four African-American women defied the odds against both racial discrimination and gender bias. They were among Langley's all-black "West Computing", a group of women who proved invaluable in the pursuit of both the triumph over the Soviet Union and America's dominion on the race to the heavens.

Behind John Glenn's orbital flight and Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk were these exceptional "human computers". Armed with slide rules, papers, and pencils, they created satellite, rocket, and airplane designs and helped guarantee the nation's victory in World War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Race.

Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures is a three-decade  chronicle of the intertwining lives of the four women as they formed friendships, fought for equality, rose above obstacles, and transformed their lives as well as America's future.