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Author:
Lee Shetterly, Margot, author.
Title:
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.
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:
"HarperAudio." Read by Robin Miles.
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:
1441709657
9781441709653
1441709584
9781441709585
LCCN:
bl2016045566
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)
CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)
CJPC482 -- Williamsburg Public Library (Williamsburg)

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