Lee Shetterly, Margot,

Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly. - Young readers' edition. First edition. - 231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.

Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step.

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.

ISBN: 9780062662385 0062662384 9780062662378 0062662376 9780606396233 0606396233

LCCN: 2016952958

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women mathematicians
African American women
African American mathematicians
Space race

Dewey Class. No.: 510.92/520973 B