HIDDEN FIGURES are some of the best scenes of the film, that reveals the struggles of NASA's three brilliant mathematicians (human computers), against racism in the 1960s and Katherine's new position - working under NASA bigwig Al Harrison, gum chomping head of the Space Task Group. Females were underpaid and undervalued, and being African American was far more difficult. Not until decades later did these three women finally received the recognition they deserved.
Hidden Figures stars Katherine G. Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (played by Janelle Monáe). Hidden Figures is a "Must See" film (along with "The Help," the stories about the black maids who worked for racist white families during 1960s).
Hidden Figures is authored by Margot Lee Shetterly, writer, researcher, and entrepreneur. Margot's father was a NASA lifer, a career Langley Research Center scientist who became an internationally respected climate expert. Learn more:
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Foto of Margot:
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Hidden Figures combo: Katherine G. Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan.
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Katherine G. Johnson with Leland Melvin, a NASA engineer and astronaut in 2011.
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Btw, did you know that Arkansas has their own version of this story? It belongs to the determined, confident, and gifted Naval engineer Ms. Raye Montague 1950s who operated the UNIVAC 1 computer. Her story begins with a German submarine smaller than the one you may have seen docked in North Little Rock.
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The last three videos, and unrelated to the film, are of Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis, two of my top 5 favorite actresses.