Bibliograph

Hidden figures, the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Hidden figures, the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden figures

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Sub title

the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Summary

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America

Table Of Contents

A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War brides -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serenditpity -- Turbulence -- Angle 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

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