After church one day, she and her father began chatting about his days as a scientist at Hampton’s Langley Research Center - the first field facility for NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Writer Margot Lee Shetterly decided to pursue Hidden Figures in 2010, while visiting her parents for Christmas.
Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and hundreds of black female mathematicians who made crucial contributions to America’s space program.īut the narrative also charts how Hampton, Virginia emerged as a driving force for aeronautics innovation and racial integration - even as the state fought against the rise of civil rights. This bestselling biography-turned- Hollywood biopic reveals the untold story of Katherine G. Hidden Figures offers a counter-narrative of hope and a prescient blueprint for unity against what feels like a vicious cycle of inequality. Meanwhile, Jim Crow-era restrictions on social, economic and political mobility have evolved new facades, namely gentrification and gerrymandering. The rise of the alt-right, a white nationalist movement, echoes sentiments of public segregation once thought long gone. Viral stories of black killings, once occasional events, morphed into déjà vu in 2016 - potentially triggering PTSD-like trauma. If you’re a person of color in America right now, it may feel like you’re riding a carousel of darkness.
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