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]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department	J 920 SHETTERLY	Check Shelf
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 920 SHETTERLY	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department	J920 SHE	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J629.407 SHE	Check Shelf
Burlington Public Library - Children's Department	J510.92 Shetterly	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Children's Department	J BIN HISTORICAL SHETTERLY	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department	J TRUE STORIES 510.92 SHETTERLY	Check Shelf
Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Children's Department	J920 SHE	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	J920 S	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department	J 510.92 SHE	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
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), illustrator.
	Adaptation of (expression): Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden figures.
ISBN	9780062742469 (hardcover)
	0062742469 (hardcover)

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