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

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet 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.