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Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

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2016

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Title:	Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
Author:	Shetterly, Margot Lee author.
Edition:	Young readers' edition, First edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] ©2016
Description:	231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary:	Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of four of NASA's African-American women mathematicians--Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden--to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
Subjects:	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- 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.
Genre:	Biographies.
Other Author:	Adaptation of (expression): Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden figures.
Reading Level:	MG Accelerated Reader AR 8.2 6.0
Contents:	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.
ISBN	9780062662385

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