Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
Margot Lee Shetterly (Author), Laura Freeman (Illustrator), Winifred Conkling (Author)
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- )
eBook, English, 2018
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY, 2018
Picture books for children
Ages 4-8.
1 online resource : color illustrations
9780062881885, 0062881884
1035306445
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