Lee Shetterly, Margot,

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly. - First edition. - xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-328) and index.

A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the 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.

Starting 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.

ISBN: 9780062363596 006236359X 9780062363596 (hc.) 006236359X (hardcover) 9780062363596 (hardcover) 0062363603 9780062363602 9780062363602

LCCN: 2016021050

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women mathematicians
Space race.
African American mathematicians
African American women
African American mathematicians.
African American women.
Employees.
Space race.
Women mathematicians.
African American women

LC Class. No.: QA27.5 / .L44 2016 QA27.5 / .L44 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 510.92/520973 510.92/520973 510.92 LEE