Hidden figures the true story of four black women and the space race
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 despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Ja...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2018]
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| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Jackson, Mary, |d 1921-2005 |v Juvenile nonfiction. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Johnson, Katherine G. |v Juvenile nonfiction. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Darden, Christine M. |v Juvenile nonfiction. |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Space race |v Juvenile nonfiction. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Conkling, Winifred, |e author. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Freeman, Laura |c (Illustrator), |e illustrator. | |
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