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- Hidden Figures | Film Guide"The story of the Black women who became “human computers,” mathematicians, and engineers for NASA is the true story behind the film Hidden Figures. More than 50 years ago, they confronted employers who hired them only reluctantly ... "
- Hidden Figures"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 black 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 black, black mathematicians who were also female. Hidden Figures is their story ... "
- Hidden Figures | Teach with Movies"“Hidden Figures” is well-crafted historical fiction that is inspirational for everyone, especially for girls and students of color. It tells a story that was “never hidden, but unseen. ... "
- Hidden Figures, Revealed: The Inspiration and Science Behind the Film"In 2010, Margot Lee Shetterly developed a newfound curiosity for her hometown of Hampton Virginia and its history of producing some of the most brilliant minds in mathematics and engineering… minds that happened to belong to women, particularly women of color ... "
