Title Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
	text file rda
Series	Hidden heroes
	Hidden heroes.
Contents	NASA's Secret -- Human Computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated Science -- Challenging the Space Race -- Race, Place, and Outer Space -- Science in Space -- Hidden No More -- Timeline -- Essential Facts -- Glossary.
Summary	Hidden Human Computers discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Audience	1080L Lexile
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.7 3 3 187975
Summary	Tells the story of the African American women who worked as mathematicians at NASA and proved invaluable to the American effort during the space race.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
Subject	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- History.
	African American women mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Langley Research Center. West Area Computing -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Women astronauts -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American astronauts -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women mathematicians.
	Women engineers.
	African American women.
	Langley Research Center. West Area Computing -- History.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History.
	Women astronauts.
	African American astronauts.
	Aerospace engineers.
	Women -- Biography.
	African Americans -- Biography.
	African American women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
	Women mathematicians -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Juvenile literature.
	African American mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
	Space race -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature.
	African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers.
	African American astronauts.
	African American mathematicians.
	African American women.
	African American women mathematicians.
	Employees.
	Space race.
	Women mathematicians.
	United States.
Genre	Electronic books.
	Juvenile works.
Added Author	Harris, Duchess, author.
Other Form:	Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Edwards, Sue Bradford. Hidden human computers Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017] 9781680783872 (NjBwBT)bl2017002465 (OCoLC)958783188
ISBN	9781624023118 $59.93
	1624023118 $59.93

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