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Author Shetterly, Margot Lee.

Title Hidden figures [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

Imprint 2018.
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Description 1 online resource
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York : HarperCollins, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB).
Summary 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.
Subject 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.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author Conkling, Winifred, author.
Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator.
Other Form: Original 9780062677280
ISBN 9780062881885 (electronic bk)
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