Hidden figures

the true story of four Black women and the space race

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Margot Lee Shetterly: Hidden figures (2018, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

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Pubblicato il 06 Aprile 2018 da Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

ISBN:
978-0-06-274246-9
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Numero OCLC:
985072992

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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. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).

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  • JUVENILE NONFICTION
  • Officials and employees
  • Women mathematicians
  • United States
  • United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • African American women
  • United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Mathematics
  • African American
  • Juvenile literature
  • People & Places
  • Space race
  • African American mathematicians
  • Mathematicians
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • African Americans
  • Science & Technology
  • Biography
  • Women

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  • United States