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this essay, I will be summarizing three out of the five articles provided. The articles I will be summarizing are “Hidden Figures”: The True Story of the Figures No More: A Book Review of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Viveka O. Brown and Joycelyn Wilson. The last article I will be summarizing is Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly.
In the article by Mekeisha Madden Toby, the author analyzes each specific main character including Margot Lee Shetterly, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson. Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of the book Hidden Figures. Shetterly told the story of the many black women who worked as human computers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from 1943 to 1980 for NASA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). Toby says that this book was not only a story, but a “historical homage to the fearlessness of mathematical minds too brilliant to be hindered by racism and sexism” (Toby). Mekeisha Madden Toby then goes on to talk about Dorothy Vaughn, who created the path as one of the first black women to work as a “human computer” at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Toby then gives a backstory of Dorothy Vaughn saying “When the married mother of four wasn’t securing promotions for her fellow black and white female co-workers, she was orchestrating ingenious childcare arrangements for her progeny and fiscally pushing her family into the middle class. She was 98 when she died in 2008” (Toby). Then there is Mary Jackson, a “shrewd and intuitive judge of character, an emotionally intelligent woman who paid close attention to her surroundings and the people around her” (Toby). Mary Jackson was a wife and mother of two. Jackson also volunteered as a Girl Scout leader for thirty years. Lastly, there is Katherine Johnson. Katherine Johnson has become the most widely recognized among NASA’s black women pioneers. She is the most well known when you think of the book Hidden Figures because of her major impact on women with color.
The next article I will be summarizing is by Margot Lee Shetterly. In the article, Shetterly gives the readers a summarization of her own life. Shetterly’s own father was a worker at Langley Research Center and would tell young Shetterly the many stories of the black female “computers” who were hired in 1943 to work in the computing pool. Shetterly then goes on to say “the first female computing pool, begun in the mid-1930s, had caused an uproar; the men in the lab couldn’t believe a female mind could process the rigorous math and work the expensive calculating machine” (Shetterly). Shetterly is telling the readers how far along women and especially women of color have come since this time. Shetterly then ends the article by saying “The stories are amazing not because the wo
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“Hidden Figures”: The True Story of the Black Women at NASA Daring “Fearlessly to Pursue Their Dreams” Mekeisha Madden Toby. 19 January 2017. “Hidden Figures”: The True Story of the Black Women at NASA Daring “Fearlessly to Pursue Their Dreams”
Hidden Figures No More: A Book Review of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. Viveka O. Brown, Joycelyn Wilson. July 2017. HiddenFigures No More: A BookReview of HiddenFigures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race. Margot Lee Shetterly. 06 September 2016. Kirkus Reviews Book Review of Hidden Figures