Afro-American Hidden Figures
African American, or sometimes known as Afro-American; Black American; or Black people, is a group of American who partially or fully descended from African people. According to U.S Census Bureau, Afro-American is the second largest race in U.S which is 13.3% in 2016. It was increased since the beginning of 20th century which was only 9%. Even though they are the second largest race, they still face the biggest issue in the world: racism. It has began when Afro-American people was used as slave owned by white population since the beginning of 19th century. It ended in the end of 19th century due to the mandatory of Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. This phenomenon actually still occurred until now, but in different context.
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It was published in 2016. It tells about the journey of Afro-American women who working on National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to win the space race around 1950s. They were considered as ‘human computer’. In the novel, Margot Lee prefer to talk about the discrimination that followed their journey. The most dominant characters are Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson. Dorothy Vaughan was an African American mathematician who became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers. Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs. She also contributed in trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury, including the NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program. Mary Jackson was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). She w became the first NASA’s black female
It was published in 2016. It tells about the journey of Afro-American women who working on National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia to win the space race around 1950s. They were considered as ‘human computer’. In the novel, Margot Lee prefer to talk about the discrimination that followed their journey. The most dominant characters are Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson. Dorothy Vaughan was an African American mathematician who became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers. Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs. She also contributed in trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury, including the NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program. Mary Jackson was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). She w became the first NASA’s black female