Hidden Figures highly recommended.

[elleng]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures

Presidential Medal of Freedom:

'Katherine G. Johnson, 97, an African-American research mathematician for NASA, calculated the flight of the first American in space and Apollo 11’s successful trip to the moon.'

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/11/29/presidential-medal-of-freedom-awarded-to-six-women/

[Aristus]

1. Looking forward to seeing the movie.

I want to check the book out from the library, but the reserve list is in the double digits. To a reader, that's a very good sign...

[elleng]

2. I should read it too,

but tears might damage the pages. And anger. A combo. Lots of emotional issues. Plus numbers/figures, of course!

[Aristus]

3. I suppose tears are an appropriate response for a story

that took so many decades to tell. I was viewing it as triumphant simply for being told at all.

You can tell I'm a white male, huh?

I can't imagine the frustration, the rage, and even the resignation that come with having one's gifts and talents suppressed at an institutional level for so many years...

[elleng]

4. Yes, quite amazing, difficult to imagine,

so glad I could watch it, even at the distance of a white woman. It's very well dramatized.

'Katherine G. Johnson, 97, an African-American research mathematician for NASA, calculated the flight of the first American in space and Apollo 11’s successful trip to the moon.'

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/11/29/presidential-medal-of-freedom-awarded-to-six-women/

[mnhtnbb]

5. We saw it Sunday and also highly recommend it.

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. Can't wait to see it!

My elderly mother, who lives in Mississippi and is a Democrat, talked a friend into going with her to see Hidden Figures. The friend is an 84-year old hateful, racist, republican. They are close neighbors and belong to the same coffee group (they go to the local mall 3 times a week, drink coffee, tell the same stories over and over, and generally have a good old time).

I couldn't believe my mother got that mean old bat to go with her. My mom loved the movie. Her friend said she liked it and it gave her a lot to think about. I almost fell out of my chair when my mother told me that.

I asked Mom how she got Lydia to go with her. She said "I told her we were going to see Hidden Fences or I'm not going". My mom is a hoot!