Hidden figures [Young readers' edition] : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

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

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Availability

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Kids' Biographies J/BIOGRAPHY/510.925/SHETTERLY,M Due: 4/13/2024
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Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, [2016]
EDITION
Young readers' edition, First edition
DESCRIPTION

231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780062662385, 0062662384, 9780062662378, 0062662376
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step

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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes

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