Hidden figures : the untold story of the African American women who helped win the space race
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Authors:
Margot Lee Shetterly
Published by
William Collins (2017)
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Class:
509.252
Keywords:
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, Women in STEM
Subjects:
Women in Science, Women Scientists - Biography
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Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements.
Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women.
Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.
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0008201323
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