From the Bookshelf of Crazy Challenge Connection…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
Book on CD read by Robin Miles
3.5***
The subtitle is all the synopsis anyone needs: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, and her father worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center. She met many women and men he worked with, knew them from their neighborhood, and from church. But as she grew older she came to realize how extraordinary their story was, and also how unknown their story was. She w ...more
3.5***
The subtitle is all the synopsis anyone needs: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, and her father worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center. She met many women and men he worked with, knew them from their neighborhood, and from church. But as she grew older she came to realize how extraordinary their story was, and also how unknown their story was. She w ...more
The story of several African American women hired to be computers at NACA, which later becomes NASA, during WWII. The women were all very talented mathematicians and in later years many went on to become engineers. I found the stories of these women's work to be fascinating and I'm surprised that before this book most people had never heard of the women computers. The book follows primarily three women, while mentioning several others, up to the moon landing. The book doesn't focus on just one s
...more
Excellent story of these women who worked for NACA and later NASA in Hampton, Virginia as human computers, doing complex calculations for the mostly white male engineers. The author focuses on four women and tells their stories, but she repeatedly tells the reader of the wide scope and hundreds of black women who filled these jobs. It was a fascinating glimpse into the inner workings of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, the progression of aeronautics in the US, and life for Southern
...more
As others have said .... the movie told the story, the book has the facts. Both were very enjoyable. Well worth the read to get the full story.
Good companion to the movie, which I saw first.
Sep 20, 2019
Amanda A
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
audio-a,
read-in-2019
Jan 09, 2017
Sarah
marked it as wishlist-fiction
Jan 26, 2017
Krissy
marked it as to-read
Aug 15, 2017
Carrie
marked it as to-read
Nov 17, 2017
Kristen
marked it as to-read
Dec 21, 2017
Rebecca NJ
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
audio,
read-in-2017
