The Resource Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
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- Summary
- Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of four African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes
- Language
- eng
- Edition
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- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Contents
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- Setting the scene
- A door opens
- Mobilization
- A new Beginning
- The double V
- The "colored" computers
- War birds
- The duration
- Breaking barriers
- No limits
- The area rule
- An exceptional mind
- Turbulence
- Progress
- Young, gifted, and black
- What a difference a day makes
- Writing the textbook on space
- With all deliberate speed
- Model behavior
- Degrees of freedom
- Out of the past, the future
- America is for everybody
- One small step
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Title
- Hidden figures
- Title remainder
- the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Statement of responsibility
- Margot Lee Shetterly
- Title variation
- Hidden figures
- Title variation remainder
- young readers edition
- Subject
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- Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism in employment
- trueRacism in politics and government
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- trueUnited States -- History -- 20th century
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature
- trueWomen mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueSpace programs -- International competition
- African American mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of four African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes
- Award
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- Amelia Bloomer List, 2018.
- Best STEM Books, 2018
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10540438
- Cataloging source
- MZC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Dewey number
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- 510.92/520973
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QA27.5
- LC item number
- .L44 2016d
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 4
- 6
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Johnson, Katherine G.
- Vaughan, Dorothy
- Jackson, Mary
- Darden, Christine M.
- United States
- Women mathematicians
- African American women
- African American mathematicians
- Space race
- Target audience
- juvenile
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- young readers' edition
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Setting the scene -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- A new Beginning -- The double V -- The "colored" computers -- War birds -- The duration -- Breaking barriers -- No limits -- The area rule -- An exceptional mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Writing the textbook on space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- One small step
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
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- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Isbn Type
- (trade hardcover bdg.)
- Lccn
- 2016952958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)964450826
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Setting the scene -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- A new Beginning -- The double V -- The "colored" computers -- War birds -- The duration -- Breaking barriers -- No limits -- The area rule -- An exceptional mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Writing the textbook on space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- One small step
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Isbn Type
- (trade hardcover bdg.)
- Lccn
- 2016952958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)964450826
Subject
- Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism in employment
- trueRacism in politics and government
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- trueUnited States -- History -- 20th century
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature
- trueWomen mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueSpace programs -- International competition
- African American mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Biographies
Genre
Included in
- trueAmelia Bloomer Lists - Middle Grades Nonfiction: 2018
- trueThe New York Times Best Sellers - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
- trueBest STEM Books: 2018
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