Title Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.

Publication Info.	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
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Description	1 online resource : illustrations (some color), portraits.
Series	Hidden heroes
	Hidden heroes.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	NASA's Secret -- Human Computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated Science -- Challenging the Space Race -- Race, Place, and Outer Space -- Science in Space -- Hidden No More -- Timeline -- Essential Facts -- Glossary.
Summary	Hidden Human Computers discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Audience	Lexile: 1080
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.7 3 187975.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (OverDrive, viewed February 10, 2017).
Subject	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (OCoLC)fst00528469
	African American women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
	Women mathematicians -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	African American women -- Juvenile literature.
	African American mathematicians -- Juvenile literature.
	Space race -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature.
	African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature.
	Aerospace engineers. (OCoLC)fst00798629
	African American astronauts. (OCoLC)fst00799024
	African American mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst00799231
	African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
	African American women mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst00799507
	Employees. (OCoLC)fst00909111
	Space race. (OCoLC)fst01127802
	Women mathematicians. (OCoLC)fst01178130
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / General.
Genre/Form	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Author	Harris, Duchess, author.
Added Title	Black women of NASA
ISBN	9781624023118 (electronic bk.)
	1624023118 (electronic bk.)

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