Bibliograph

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Type

Label

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

008-012

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden figures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Margot Lee Shetterly

Sub title

the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes

Table Of Contents

Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step -- Timeline -- Glossary

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification