Cover image for Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
Title:
Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
ISBN:
9780062742469
Personal Author:
Shetterly, Margot Lee
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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 despite their groundbreaking successes.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader LG 5.8 0.5 193339
Corporate Subject:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography
Subject Term:
Women mathematicians--United States -- Biography

African American women -- Biography

African American mathematicians -- Biography

Space race

Women mathematicians

African American women

African American mathematicians

African Americans -- Biography

Women -- Biography

Black women -- Biography

Black mathematicians -- Biography

Black women

Black mathematicians

Black people--United States -- Biography.
Added Author:
Conkling, Winifred

Freeman, Laura (Illustrator)

Adaptation of (expression): Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden figures.
Audience:
980L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn985072992
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