Over 300 pages of much needed history on space, the "Human Computers", and black women's experience
Over 300 pages of much needed history on space, the "Human Computers", and black women's experiences in America. The main focus is a group of African American women who joined the space program as mathematicians. Many were math teachers who came from the segregated school system of the American south to answer their nations need in a time of war. World War Two was raging and they went to work in Hampton Virginia. After the war, during the Cold War, they stayed to help America with one of it's greatest achievements - getting men on the Moon and finally putting NASA on the finish line of the Space Race - a Race the USSR had been winning up to that point. It covers over three decades of their careers as they faced racism and changed their own lives, and the future of humanity, forever. I became very interested in the subject when I found a display on Katherine Johnson at Airpower Park in Hampton and had to learn more. So I had to find a book on it. A must for anybody interested in American history, African-American history, women's history, and the history of the space program.
easy to read..good drawings
Mr. Chapman has written a horrifying road novel with things touching things that shouldn't and body parts in laps and on the road. Just when you think it's getting really gross there's a tap on your shoulder in the bathtub. The perfect gift for Mother's Day.
Very educational
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