Bibliograph

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Type

Label

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden figures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

964450826

Responsibility statement

Margot Lee Shetterly

Sub title

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

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification