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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.     Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.     African American women -- Biography.     African American mathematicians -- Biography.     Space race.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.       by title:      Hidden figures : the...         MARC Display

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly. by Shetterly, Margot Lee, author. New York, NY : William Morrow, c2016. Subjects United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.   Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.   African American women -- Biography.   African American mathematicians -- Biography.   Space race. ISBN:  9780062363596 (hardcover) : 006236359X (hardcover) Description:  xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go. Requests:  0 Summary:  Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 She Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 510.9252 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 Next

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