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Item Information       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 [elec...         MARC Display

Hidden figures [electronic resource] : 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, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. 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. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D0E39627-194B-4515-9ED1-B67E0E79FFDF This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d0e39627-194b-4515-9ed1-b67e0e79ffdf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{D0E39627-194B-4515-9ED1-B67E0E79FFDF}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780062363619 (electronic bk.) 0062363611 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (368 p.) 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:  The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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