Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2016Edition: First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback editionDescription: xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 9780062363602
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
- 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
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Astronautics -- United States -- History
- 510.92/520973 B 23
- 920 15
- QA27.5 .L44 2016e
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Includes reading group guide.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.
An account of the previously unheralded 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 successes.
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