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Hidden Figures

2016127 minENIMDb 7.8/10 · 295K votes

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

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1953 → 20.02.1962

Primary placement confidence: high. Importance on the World History timeline: 5/5.

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Space RaceFrom postwar test pilots and Sputnik to the Apollo moon landing and beyond.→The Civil Rights MovementSegregation, legal equality and Black American activism, 1950s–1960s→
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Dorothy VaughanMajor Character · Historical
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Katherine JohnsonMain Subject · Historical
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Mary JacksonMajor Character · Historical
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John GlennMajor Character · Historical
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VirginiaPrimary Setting · State

The Tidewater Virginia region was the setting for Jamestown and early English-Powhatan encounters.

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