Before a computer became an inanimate object and before Sputnik changed the course of history, before the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education established that separate was in fact not equal, and before the poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech rang out over the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, a group of African American women working at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia were helping America dominate aeronautics, space research, and computer technology, carving out a place for themselves as female mathematicians who were also African American and African American mathematicians who were also female. Hidden Figures is their story. (from hiddenfigures.com)
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson and features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor and mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles.
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