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

Soon to be a motion picture. The #1 New York Times Bestseller. 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 ‘coloured 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.