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05261cam a2200733Mi 4500 001 ACF718F40A9211ECA61A5BD2213FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210831143602 008 160901t20162016nyua c b 001 0ceng d 010 $a 2016952958 020 $a 0606396233 020 $a 9780606396233 020 $a 0062662376 020 $a 9780062662378 020 $a 0062662384 020 $a 9780062662385 035 $a (OCoLC)1003160620 040 $a AL7VL $b eng $e rda $c AL7VL $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d IDWBL $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a QA27.5 $b .L44 2016b 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Lee Shetterly, Margot, $e author. 245 10 $a Hidden figures (young reader's edition) : $b the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / $c Margot Lee Shetterly. 250 $a Young readers' edition. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, $c [2016] 300 $a 231 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments. 521 1 $a Ages 8-12. 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $x Officials and employees $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 610 11 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $v Biography. 610 17 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00528469 610 24 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Women mathematicians $z United States $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a African American women $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a African American mathematicians $v Juvenile literature. $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Space race $v Juvenile literature. 650 1 $a Women mathematicians. 650 1 $a African American women. 650 1 $a African American mathematicians. 650 1 $a Space race. 650 1 $a African Americans $v Biography. 650 1 $a Women $v Biography. 650 7 $a Employees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00909111 650 7 $a African American mathematicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799231 650 7 $a African American women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799438 650 7 $a Space race. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127802 650 7 $a Women mathematicians. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178130 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION $x Women. $x Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION $x Mathematics. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a JUVENILE NONFICTION $x African American. $z United States $x African American. $2 bisacsh 651 4 $a United States. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Juvenile works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411637 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Lee Shetterly, Margot. $t Hidden figures. $i Adaptation of (expression) 941 $a 2 $n 1 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20220214102211.0 $n 10 $p 1/12/22 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20210831145644.0 $n 11 $p 10 trade pbks + 1 DVD 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ACF718F40A9211ECA61A5BD2213FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search