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Author:

Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Subject:

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

Other Authors:

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

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.

ISBN:

0062742469
9780062742469 (hardcover)

LCCN:

bl2017053052

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