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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.     Subjects     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 -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.       by title:      Hidden figures : the...         MARC Display

Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly. by Shetterly, Margot Lee, author. New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2016. Subjects 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 -- History -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9780062662385 (hardback) 0062662384 (hardback) 9780062662378 (paperback) : 0062662376 (paperback) Description:  231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  Young readers' edition. First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments. Audience:  Ages 8-12.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Shetterly Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library J -- Juvenile Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked out 06/05/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Shelving Cart   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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