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Author:

Lee Shetterly, Margot, author.

Title:

Hidden figures [BKCD] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.

Format:

[BKCD] :

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publisher:

Blackstone,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
Women mathematicians--United States--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
African American mathematicians--Biography.
Space race.
Audiobooks.

Other Authors:

Miles, Robin, narrator.

Notes:

Read by Robin Miles. "HarperAudio."

Summary:

An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.

ISBN:

1441709584
9781441709585

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961878492

Locations:

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

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