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Hidden Figures : : the True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Shetterly, Margot Lee. Book - 2018 J 510.925 Sh, Kids Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Scientists & Inventors / Miscellaneous 4 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Contents: Hidden figures.

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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062742469
0062742469

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Conkling, Winifred.
Freeman, Laura.
Shetterly, Margot Lee.

SUBJECTS
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
African American mathematicians -- Biography.
Space race.
Women -- Biography.