Jack Kemp

And there will be a movie out about this in wide distribution on January 6, 2017... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1

From the NY Post

http://nypost.com/2016/12/18/how-this-brilliant-mathematician-made-john-glenn-a-national-hero/

How this brilliant mathematician made John Glenn a national hero

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, taking "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” But he got there thanks to a woman, Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who calculated Apollo 11’s trajectory to the moon and back. Johnson was one of many African-American women who advanced the space race but whose fingerprints on history had been all but buried in moon dust — until recently.

In "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race” (William Morrow), journalist Margot Lee Shetterly unearths the heroic true tale of the women who worked at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory at a time when "computers” referred not to machines but to humans, and NASA, then called NACA (the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), had segregated computing units: the East Area was for whites, the West Area for blacks. Back in September, Shetterly’s book was an instant best seller, and on Christmas Eve, the movie of the same name starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe lands in theaters.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 01:38 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 221 words, total size 2 kb.