![]() ![]() ![]() Monae, who makes her big screen debut portraying Mary Johnson in the film, says she got emotional when she learned the story of these women and read the script. Henson (Katherine Johnson), Octavia Spencer (Dorothy Vaughn) and Grammy-nominated singer Janelle Monae (Mary Jackson) will be released on January 13, 2017. ![]() The movie “Hidden Figures,” based on Shetterly's book and starring Taraji P. We want to do this,” Shetterly says Academy-Award winning producer Donna Gigliotti told her. Levantine Films purchased the rights to the story with just the book’s proposal two years ago. However, despite the hardships of working under Virginia's Jim Crow laws, these women went on to help the United States make major advances in its aeronautics and astronautics programs as well as declare victory over Russia in the Space Race. And, for black women like Johnson, Jackson and Vaughan they were segregated from white women in the workplace. Women often worked in separate rooms from men at NASA. The history making work of these women took place at an intersection of important movements in American history, including the burgeoning struggle for civil rights and the fight for gender equality. “Hidden Figures” recounts the little known true story of pioneers like Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and other black female mathematicians or “human computers” as they were called who worked for NASA. Brings Mary Jackson's legacy to the big screen! #hiddenfigures /tyN1ghMBaC- Margot Lee Shetterly August 17, 2016 ![]()
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