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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Copyright date: c2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062742469
- 0062742469
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Biography
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Biography
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Biography
- Darden, Christine M. -- Biography
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians
- African American women
- African American mathematicians
- Space race
- African Americans -- Biography
- Women -- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- African American mathematicians
- African American women
- Employees
- Space race
- Women mathematicians
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- Space race
- Mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Mathematicians
- Women -- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians
- African Americans -- Biography
- African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians
- African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American women
- United States
- QA27.5 .L44 2018
- QA28 .S538 2018
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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-).
Ages 4-8.
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