01904cam a2200373 i 4500 431179423 TxAuBib 20200729120000.0 170427s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062742469 $17.99 0062742469 $17.99 (OCoLC)985072992 TxAuBib rda Shetterly, Margot Lee,. Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier 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-). 20200729. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Biography Juvenile literature. Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literature. African American women Biography Juvenile literature. African American mathematicians Biography Juvenile literature. Space race Juvenile literature. Conkling, Winifred,. Freeman, Laura.