Hidden Figures [Young Reader's Edition]
The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: Young readers' edition, First edition.
Description: 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 1120L
ISBN:
9780062662385
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.