Hidden figures
Subtitle: the true story of four Black women and the space race
By: by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
Contributors: Conkling, Winifred, author; Freeman, Laura (Illustrator), illustrator; Shetterly, Margot Lee
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780062742469
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: JUVENILE NONFICTION; Officials and employees; Women mathematicians; United States; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American women; United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Mathematics; African American; Juvenile literature; People & Places; Space race; African American mathematicians; Mathematicians; Biography & Autobiography; African Americans; Science & Technology; Biography; Women
Description: 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- ).
Notes: Ages 4-8.