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020 $a9780062363602 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 4$aQA27.5$b.L44 2016b
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100 1 $aLee Shetterly, Margot,$eauthor.
245 10$aHidden figures :$bthe American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race /$cMargot Lee Shetterly.
250 $aFirst William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bWilliam Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,$c2016.
300 $axviii, 349 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aIncludes reading group guide (pages 347-349).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.
505 0 $aAuthor's note -- Prologue. -- 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. -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Reading group guide.
520 $aStarting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future--Back cover.
650 0$aWomen mathematicians$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican American mathematicians$vBiography.
650 0$aSpace race.
650 0$aAfrican American women$vBiography.