Bibliograph

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Type

Label

Hidden figures, the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden figures

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

964660697

Responsibility statement

Margot Lee Shetterly

Sub title

the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

Summary

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. Soon to be 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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification