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Title Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race / by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman.

Publication Info.

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction	J 920 She	---	Available

Edition	First edition.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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	unmediated rdamedia
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Summary	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 despite their groundbreaking successes.
Subject	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Space race -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
	Women mathematicians.
	African American women.
	African American mathematicians.
	Space race.
	African Americans -- Biography.
	Women -- Biography.
Added Author	Conkling, Winifred, author.
	Freeman, Laura, illustrator.
	Adaptation of (expression): Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden figures
ISBN	9780062742469 (lib. bdg.)
	0062742469 (lib. bdg.)