TY - BOOK AU - Shetterly,Margot Lee AU - Conkling,Winifred AU - Freeman,Laura TI - Hidden figures: the true story of four black women and the space race SN - 9780062742469 U1 - JN 509 PY - 2018///] CY - New York, NY PB - Harper KW - Vaughan, Dorothy, KW - Jackson, Mary, KW - Johnson, Katherine G. KW - Darden, Christine M. KW - United States KW - National Aeronautics and Space Administration KW - Officials and employees KW - Juvenile literature KW - Women mathematicians KW - Biography KW - African American women KW - African American mathematicians KW - Space race KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - Picture books N2 - 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- ) ER -