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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceSet against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, Hidden Figures is the never before told story of NASA's African American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now. Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, Hidden Figures is the never-before-told story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program--and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now.
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or 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 by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Freshman Common Read: University of Mary Washington, MIT, Cedar Crest College, University of Houston, SUNY Oneonta, University of West Virginia, College of William and Mary, Lafayette College, Palm Beach State College, Lone Star College--among others
--Seattle TimesBinding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 09/06/2016
ISBN: 9780062363596
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.40d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2016 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
BookPage 09/01/2016
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2016
Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 123
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2016
Booklist 09/01/2016 pg. 20
Shelf Awareness 09/09/2016
Choice 04/01/2017
School Library Journal 04/01/2017 pg. 162
Library Journal 04/15/2016
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 187010 / Hidden Figures
Reading Level: 9.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 18
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