Hidden figures
the true story of four black women and the space race
Shetterly, Margot Lee
creator
author.
Conkling, Winifred
author.
Freeman, Laura
(Illustrator)
illustrator.
text
biography
Biographies.
Picture books.
nyu
2018
2018
First edition.
monographic
eng
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 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 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- )
preschool
by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.
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Vaughan, Dorothy
1910-2008
Biography
Jackson, Mary
1921-2005
Biography
Johnson, Katherine G
Biography
Darden, Christine M
Biography
United States.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Officials and employees
Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians
United States
Biography
African American women
Biography
African American mathematicians
Biography
Space race
Juvenile literature
.S538 2018
JN 509 .S554 2018
9780062742469
0062742469
2017942901
BTCTA
170427
20180502120602.0
985072992
eng