Hidden Figures – Young Reader’s Edition – Hardcover
This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan Mary Jackson Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era the Space Race the Cold War and the movement for gender equality and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
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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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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New York Times bestselling author Margot Lee Shetterly’s book is now available in a new edition perfect for young readers. This is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson Octavia Spencer Janelle Monae Kirsten Dunst and Kevin Costner.
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. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan Mary Jackson Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era the Space Race the Cold War and the movement for gender equality and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
Hardcover
Ages 8-12
240 pages
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