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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race  Cover Image Book Book

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.

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  • ISBN: 9780062363602
  • Physical Description: xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking 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.
Awards Note:
New York Times Best Seller List.
Subject: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Schwarze, ...
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
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.
Space race.
Space race.
African American women > Biography.
African American mathematicians > Biography.
United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
African American mathematicians.
African American women.
Employees.
Space race.
Women mathematicians.
United States.
Raumfahrtprogramm
Mathematikerin
Women mathematicians > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American mathematicians > Biography.
Astronautics > United States > Hitory.
Genre: Biographies.
Biography.
Biographies.
Biographies.

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