Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who He - Collins Modern Classics

Informationen zum Autor Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA's female Human Computers. She is one of the founders of Inside Mexico Magazine, an English-language magazine for Mexico's expat population, and in her former lives worked as an Internet executive and an investment banker. She splits her time between Hampton, Virginia and Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Klappentext NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program. 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. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. 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. Zusammenfassung NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.

Product details

• Authors: Margot Lee Shetterly, Shetterly Margot Lee
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.05.2022
• EAN: 9780008555375
• ISBN: 978-0-00-855537-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General