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Author:

Lee Shetterly, Margot, author.

Title:

Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly.

Edition:

Young readers' edition ; First edition.

Publisher:

HarperAn Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography.
Women mathematicians--United States--Literatures.--Literatures.
African American women--Literatures.--Literatures.
African American mathematicians--Literatures.--Literatures.
Space race--Literatures.
Women mathematicians.
African American women.
African American mathematicians.
Space race.
African Americans--Biography.

Other Authors:

Adaptation of (expression): Lee Shetterly, Margot. Hidden figures.

Notes:

"The book that inspired the movie" -- cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0062662384
9780062662385
0062662376
9780062662378

LCCN:

2016952958

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