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160217s2016 nyu 001 0 eng d
0062363603
9780062363602
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QA27.5
.L44 2016
Lee Shetterly, Margot,
Hidden figures :
the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race /
Margot Lee Shetterly
First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition
New York, NY :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
2016
xviii, 349 pages ;
21 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index
A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go
"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future"--Back cover
United States.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Officials and employees
Biography
Women mathematicians
United States
Biography
African American women
Biography
African American mathematicians
Biography
Space race
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