Hidden figures, the true story of four black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
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Label
Hidden figures, the true story of four black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
Language
eng
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Intended audience
Ages 4-8
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hidden figures
Oclc number
985072992
Responsibility statement
by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
Sub title
the true story of four black women and the space race
Summary
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-)
Target audience
juvenile
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Women mathematicians
- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Darden, Christine M. -- Biography
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Biography
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- Women -- Biography
- Space race
- Employees
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- African American mathematicians
- United States
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor3
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject22
- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Women mathematicians
- Biography
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / African American
- Darden, Christine M. -- Biography
- Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Biography
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- Women -- Biography
- Space race
- Employees
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Johnson, Katherine G. -- Biography
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics
- JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
- African American mathematicians
- United States
- Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Biography
- African Americans -- Biography
- Content2
- Author2
- Illustrator1
- Mapped to1