Bedtime Biography: Hidden Figures
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What’s it about?
In the segregated back rooms of NASA, three Black female mathematicians crunch the numbers that win the space race—while fighting a bigger battle for dignity and recognition.
You’ll learn
- How Dorothy Vaughan mastered FORTRAN to stay indispensable
- Mary Jackson's legal fight to become NASA's first Black female engineer
- Katherine Johnson's calculations that made moon landings possible
- How excellence quietly broke racial barriers in the Space Age