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

"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shetterly, Margot Lee
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography. United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Women mathematicians > United States > Biography. African American women > Biography. African American mathematicians > Biography. Space race. African American mathematicians. African American women. Employees. Women mathematicians. 20th Century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. United States. Biographies.
Genre:	Biography. Biographies.
Local Note:	MSU: This book was selected in recognition of MSU Libraries Student Employee, Breeona Rue, Class of 2017
Physical Description:	xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

A door opens
Mobilization
Past is prologue
The double V
Manifest destiny
War birds
The duration
Those who move forward
Breaking 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.