Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062742469
- 0062742469
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were all good at math. Really good.
And it was their understanding of numbers that helped them do what seemed impossible. They were African-American women, living during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were hardworking and persistent and most important, smart. And that's why NASA hired them as mathematicians, also known as "colored computers," to help send the United States into space for the very first time. This inspiring story brings to life these four "hidden figures" and what they overcame to succeed, changing not only their own lives, but the face of air and space travel forever.
Ages 4-8.
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-).