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Author:

Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.

Title:

Hidden human computers : the Black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.

Publisher:

Essential Libraryan imprint of ABDO Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

112 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs ; 24 cm

Subject:

United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
United States.--National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
African American women mathematicians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women engineers--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Aerospace engineers--United States--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Mathematicians.
Aerospace engineers.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

NASA's secret -- Human computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated science -- Challenging the space race -- Race, place, and outer space -- Science in space -- Hidden no more -- Timeline -- Essential facts -- Glossary.

Series:

Hidden heroes

ISBN:

1680783874
9781680783872

Locations:

MMPE553 -- Algona Public Library (Algona)

AFPD266 -- Bloomfield Public Library (Bloomfield)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

TAPB572 -- Fairfax Public Library (Fairfax)

XUPC157 -- Griswold Public Library (Griswold)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

EYPC755 -- Kingsley Public Library (Kingsley)

GCPC771 -- Mitchellville Public Library (Mitchellville)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

BKPC251 -- Woodward Public Library (Woodward)