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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race

Call Number

  • J 629.4 LEE (CEN, OSH, WSQ)

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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-).

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