Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
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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- ISBN: 9780062662385
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Physical Description
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231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Edition Young readers' edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Timeline -- Glossary. |
| Target Audience Note: | 008-012. |