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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Subjects
- Women mathematicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Space race > Juvenile literature.
- Women mathematicians.
- African American women.
- African American mathematicians.
- Space race.
- African Americans > Biography.
- Women > Biography.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Biography.