TY - BOOK AU - Shetterly,Margot Lee AU - Conkling,Winifred AU - Freeman,Laura AU - Shetterly,Margot Lee TI - Hidden figures: the true story of four black women and the space race SN - 9780062742469 AV - QA27.5 .L44 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, NY PB - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Vaughan, Dorothy, KW - Jackson, Mary, KW - Johnson, Katherine G. KW - Darden, Christine M. KW - United States KW - National Aeronautics and Space Administration KW - Officials and employees KW - Juvenile literature KW - fast KW - Biography KW - Women mathematicians KW - African American women KW - African American mathematicians KW - Space race KW - African Americans KW - Women KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology KW - bisacsh KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics KW - JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American KW - Employees KW - Mathematicians KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Juvenile works N1 - Ages 4-8 N2 - 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-) ER -