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Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

#1 New York Times Bestseller 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.

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