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Hidden Figures

The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

BiographyJuvenile literatureOfficials and employeesWomen mathematiciansAfrican American womenAfrican American mathematiciansSpace raceAfrican Americans

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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Book data: Open Library