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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race Cover Image Book Book

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

Shetterly, Margot Lee, (author.). Conkling, Winifred, (author.). Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), (illustrator.). Shetterly, Margot Lee. Adaptation of (expression): Hidden figures. (Added Author).

Summary:

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-).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062742469
  • ISBN: 0062742469
  • Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

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Target Audience Note:
980L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader LG 5.8 0.5 0.5 193339

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Subject: 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 > Juvenile literature.
African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Space race > Juvenile literature.
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 4 of 8 copies available at York County Libraries.

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