Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Audiobook (Free)

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be always a major film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the planet earth, or Neil Armstrong walked within the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians referred to as “human computers” used pencils, slide guidelines and adding machines to calculate the numbers that about Hidden Figures: The American Dream as well as the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Get the Space Competition would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, a number of the brightest thoughts of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, these were known as into service through the labor shortages of World Battle II, when America’s aeronautics sector was in dire need of anyone who experienced the right stuff. Instantly, these overlooked math whizzes had a go at jobs worthy of their skills, and they clarified Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia as well as the exciting, high-energy world from the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Lab.

Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws and regulations required these to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “Western world Computing” group helped America achieve one of the issues it desired most: a decisive triumph on the Soviet Union in the Cold Battle, and complete domination from the heavens.

Beginning in World Battle II and moving to the Cold Battle, the Civil Privileges Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in a few of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their professions over nearly three years they faced issues, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their very own lives, and their country’s future.