Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

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 Ja...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shetterly, Margot Lee (Author)
Conkling, Winifred (Author)
Other Authors: Freeman, Laura (Illustrator) (Illustrator)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
Vaughan, Dorothy, > 1910-2008 > Juvenile literature.
Jackson, Mary, > 1921-2005 > Juvenile literature.
Johnson, Katherine G. > Juvenile literature.
Darden, Christine M. > Juvenile literature.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > 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.
Johnson, Katherine G.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
African American mathematicians.
African American women.
Employees.
Space race.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Picture books.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Biography
Picture books.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Variant Title:
True story of four Black women and the space race
Format: Book

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