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Author Lee Shetterly, Margot, author.

Title Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, New York : William Morrow, [2016]
©2016
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1767842~S1
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Description xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- Past Is Prologue -- The Double V -- Manifest Destiny -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Those Who Moved Forward -- Breaking the Barriers -- Home by the Sea -- The Area Rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of Attack -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Outer Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- To Boldly Go.
Summary An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal 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 groundbreaking successes.
Audience Adult. Brodart
Adult. Brodart
Subject 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.
ISBN 9780062363596 (hardcover)
006236359X (hardcover)
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