The Arroyo Book Club will be reading Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly for our August meeting. The book, which has been made into a movie, tells the story of four of NASA’s human calculators. These four African American women were significant in the success of NASA’s space exploration. Per the catalog description about the book:
Hidden Figures is the untold true story of the African-American female mathematicians, "colored computers," at NASA who provided the calculations that helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space, set against the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement.
Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden-four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades as they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.Feel inspired by the recent anniversary of the Moon landing and take a look some of the people behind that story with us this month. Stop by the library for a copy of the book and join us for discussion on August 24 at 3:00.
