TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee Shetterly,Margot
TI  - Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race 
SN  - 0062363603
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - United States
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women mathematicians
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American mathematicians
KW  - Space race
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -