This is the eye-opening book on which the outstanding movie Hidden Figures (2016) was based. It’s the inspirational story of the young black women mathematicians, mostly math teachers from the south, who played a key role in aeronautical R&D for the U.S. in World War II, and then went on to play similarly vital (and previously unknown) roles in the early space program with NASA.
The story illuminates the stark contrast between their abilities, dedication, patriotism and successes in a professional and technical world once assumed to be the exclusive domain of white men from elite universities, and the lives they lived as second class citizens due to the way blacks and women were treated in American society. Highly recommended.
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