Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race /

Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

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...

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Main Authors: Shetterly, Margot Lee (Author), Conkling, Winifred (Author)
Other Authors: Freeman, Laura (Illustrator) (Illustrator)
Other title:True story of four Black women and the space race.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Vaughan, Dorothy, > 1910-2008 > Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Mary, > 1921-2005 > Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G. > Juvenile literature.
Darden, Christine M. > Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Juvenile literature.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Women mathematicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Space race > Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians.
African American women.
Employees.
Space race.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Picture books.
Biographies.
Biography.
Juvenile works.
Picture books for children.

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