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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
(2018)
By: Shetterly, Margot Lee

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
E/BIOGRAPHY/510.925/SHETTERLY,M

Availability

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Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780062742469, 0062742469
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Award

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

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Additional Credits

CREDITS

Conkling, Winifred, author

Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator

Shetterly, Margot Lee. Adaptation of (expression): Hidden figures

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SUBJECTS

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.

Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.

African American women -- Biography.

African American mathematicians -- Biography.

Space race.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.

Women mathematicians.

African Americans -- Biography.

Women -- Biography.

Biographies.

LOCAL SUBJECTS

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Award

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AHML Diversity book project -- Black interest