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Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American
women who helped launch our nation into space (39942) |
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| | Physical
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Illustrated
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Junior High, Senior High (JS)
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Professional Library
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| | Synopsis
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on
the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as -human
computersused pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate
the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary
Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four
African-American women who lived through the civil rights era, the
Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and
whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the
country"—Amazon.com.
| | Author
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Shetterly, Margot Lee
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20 cm
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Young readers edition, First edition.
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9780062662385
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Margot Lee Shetterly.
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African Americans;
Astronautics;
Mathematicians—Biography.;
United States—Biography;
Women;
Diversity(CK);
United States.—National Aeronautics and Space Administration—Off(A)
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FIC SHE
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