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.
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
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2018
Publication:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Abstract:
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. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Genre:
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Carrier Type:
volume
Content Type:
text

still image
Language:
English
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