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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Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
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portraitsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hidden figures
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
964450826
Responsibility statement
Margot Lee Shetterly
Sub title
the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
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
Table Of 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
Target audience
juvenile
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- Biographies
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature
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- Biographies
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature
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