The movie Hidden Figures was released on Christmas Day 2016 and has, according to the sidebar on Google, can be summarized thus: “The incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson - brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.” https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=hidden+figures&*.
As the revisionist history goes, the now conveniently deceased astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, allegedly asked that the orbit trajectory produced by IBM’s 7090 computer be checked by the “girl,” a black mathematician Katherine Johnson.
