Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures Analysis

In the book Hidden Figures written by Margot Lee Shetterly, Katherine Johnson is one of the main characters. Known as a human computer working for NASA. Katherine is a very smart woman who graduated from college when she was 18 years old and when she was 10 years old she attended high school. She is one of the first African Americans to work for NASA. She would work on some of the hardest calculations and would still find ways to solve them. She was a very hard worker but did not get credit for what she did because she is African American, she made history.

There was Mary and one other African American women working in the East Computers. The other lady was Dorothy Vaughan. Mary and Dorothy helped NASA by providing important information that was later used in the early days of the NASA space program.

Mary settled working in NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in 1951. She worked and was the member of the west area computing unit, were at the time was called the “human computer”. She was supervised by Dorothy Vaughan who was also a comprising African American female mathematician. Both women provided data that was important for the early success of the space

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African Americans have been making history for years knowing people will think they are not capable of exceeding anything, that african Americans are incapable to change the world but it was possible and the proof is right in front of you with the products they have created that benefit everyone today. Math is one of the reason that help us understand why the world is like this today and how everything function, also it brought us mathematician which is an expert in math, so anyone can be a mathematician and it doesn’t matter what gender, race, ethnicity, and etc. An african-american mathematician known as Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. is known for america’s most important contemporary mathematician which is a big title for this individual was

“Calculating trajectories is no simple task,” but to Katherine Johnson and other computers at NASA and JPL, it’s just another everyday job. The film Hidden Figures focuses on African American women who were computers at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, Virginia. Furthermore, the book Rise of the Rocket Girls is directed towards women who were computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The connection between these two literary works are similar in terms of the characters but different regarding background.

Kimberly Bryant is very inspirational to every black girl in America. When she was younger, she wasn’t interested in coding before she made it into a career. She was in the department of biotechnology, which is studying mutations and finding antibiotics. It all started when her daughter Kai was disappointed in her experience at a computing summer camp over the summer. She was disappointed in how there were only a handful of African American girls there, and that the boys got a lot more opportunity than the girls. Bryant started the Black Girls Code in April of 2011.

In the 1920’s women did not have very many rights. They had just started to work outside of their homes and in the factories. These women wanted to help support their husbands and sons that were away at war during World War I. This gave them a sense of power and led them to wanting more respect than they were receiving from the men. Being a woman was not the only problem that some faced in America, but being an African American woman in America was extremely difficult. This made it hard to find jobs and this affected the black males as well, but the females were hit with a double slam when it came to being a minority. Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was an African American woman. She was the first African American woman to receive an aviation license.

There is no limit to black excellence. In this outstanding tasteful book Black Achievers Vol. 2, we give you a glimpse inside the mind of black resourceful business conglomorates, black futuristic thinking inventors, and the outstanding out of this world astronaut whose innovation and ability to face their fears, and think outside the box have overcome numerous hurdles and opened doors for future generations of trailblazers.The book presents icons and entreprenuers such as, Bridget 'Bitty' Mason, plantation slave turned self starting entreprenuer Clara Brown, Maggie Lena Walker a late 19th century black leader who was one of the first women to charter a bank in the united states, Historical black university president Dr. William R. Harvey,

The stories African-American women and their contribution to the passing of the 19th Amendment, fall under the category of "hidden history". Even so, they have cemented a place for themselves in history.

These paved roads allow me to discuss Ursula Burns. Ursula Burns is the first African-American female Chief Executive Officer. Not only is she a Chief Executive Office, but she is the CEO of Xerox, which is also a Fortune 500 Company. Ursula’s own road was not paved in gold, it was exactly the opposite. A single mother on the lower East Side of Manhattan raised her. Ursula was quoted stating that, “Many people told me I had three strikes against me: I was black. I was a girl. And I was poor. Mom didn’t see it that way. She constantly reminded me “where I was didn’t define who I was.” (Ursula Burns, 2016)

Hidden Figures, a book about 3 African American women who overcame adversity, takes place in the mid 1960s. A time where racism was at its worst and poverty was in effect. The names were Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, who were all 3 geniuses in their fields of study. Katherine was a math expert, Dorothy was a supervisor, and Mary was an engineer. During a time of racism, nobody would’ve imagined that 3 African American women, along with many more women, that they would work for N.A.S.A. These 3 women went through so many obstacles in their life. These 3 women are perfect examples of overcoming anything that stands in your way.

The movie Hidden Figures is about 3 African American women who work for NASA during the 1950’s.The three women are Katherine Johnson,Dorothy Vaughn,and Mary Jackson.Katherine Johnson had a hidden talent that most of the people that worked at NASA didn't know she had , she was a master with the numbers.Dorothy was the manager of NASA's segregated West Area Computing Unit and she was also good with the numbers,just not as good as Katherine.Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer that worked at NASA,along with the other three girls.Many African American women worked for NASA they just don't receive much recognition but these three women seem to have changed the game for everyone.

In the movie Hidden Figures, African American women are portrayed as uneducated by white men. In order to find the calculations to launch the spaceflight program, it required a fair amount of time and effort to put in. The main character Katherine G. Johnson put in her all and found the perfect solution to the calculations even

Today, I am going to talk about the movie Hidden Figures which was released January 6, 2017. The two theories I will be relating to this movie is the Social learning and Cultivation theory. This movie is going back to Hampshire Virginia in 1961. During this time there was still segregation such as bathrooms, dining areas, drinking fountains, and seatings. Black people weren't respected at all especially during this time. It was mainly about three black women by the names of Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan who had worked for NASA ( National Aeronautics and Space Administration). It was hard for these three black women and also for NASA. NASA focused more on the Space Race. The Space Race proved which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. This became important after World War II because many had realized how important it was for rockets in the military. These three women were mathematicians for NASA, but by them being black women there were many different challenges. Being black women it made it hard for them to elevate in the workplace. Black people couldn't be in the same rooms as whites. The color people had their separate workplace from the whites. The whites had more of a comfortable work area than those who were black did. These three women were smart in different fields, but mainly it was rare for women to be engineers. The men continued to doubt that they could make it to the top because people were taught that women