02611cam a2200601 i 4500 1720866748 TxAuBib 20241118120000.0 160901s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016952958 9780062662385 $18.99 0062662384 $18.99 TxAuBib rda Shetterly, Margot Lee,. Hidden figures. Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly. Young readers' edition, First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] ©2016. 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index. 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. Ages 8-12. 20241118. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Biography Juvenile literature. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biography. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. fast Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literature. Women mathematicians. African American women Biography Juvenile literature. African American mathematicians Biography Juvenile literature. African American mathematicians. Space race Juvenile literature. Space race. Employees. fast African American mathematicians. fast African American women. fast Space race. fast Women mathematicians. fast African American women. fast African Americans Biography. Women Biography. United States. fast Biographies. fast Biographies. fast Biography. fast Juvenile works. fast