Hidden figures young reader's edition : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780062662385
- ISBN: 0062662384
- ISBN: 9780062662378
- ISBN: 0062662376
- Physical Description: 231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition: Young readers' edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 8-12. |
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