The Resource Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
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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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes
- Language
- eng
- Edition
-
- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Contents
-
- Setting the Scene
- A Door Opens
- Mobilization
- A New Beginning
- The Double V
- The "Colored" Computers
- War Birds
- The Duration
- Breaking Barriers
- No Limits
- The Area Rule
- An Exceptional Mind
- Turbulence
- Progress
- Young, Gifted, and Black
- What a Difference a Day Makes
- Writing the Textbook on Space
- With All Deliberate Speed
- Model Behavior
- Degrees of Freedom
- Out of the Past, the Future
- America Is for Everybody
- One Small Step
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Title
- Hidden figures
- Title remainder
- the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Statement of responsibility
- Margot Lee Shetterly
- Title variation
- Hidden figures
- Title variation remainder
- young readers edition
- Subject
-
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism in employment
- trueRacism in politics and government
- trueSpace programs -- International competition
- trueSpace race
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueWomen -- Biography
- trueWomen mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueUnited States -- History -- 20th century
- trueAfrican American mathematicians
- African American mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- Language
- eng
- 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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes
- Award
-
- Amelia Bloomer List, 2018.
- Best STEM Books, 2018
- Biography type
- collective biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10540438
- Cataloging source
- MZC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Dewey number
-
- 510.92/520973
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Interest level
- MG
- LC call number
- QA27.5
- LC item number
- .L44 2016d
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
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- 4
- 6
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Reading level
- 8.2
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Study program name
- Accelerated Reader AR
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- United States
- United States
- Women mathematicians
- African American women
- African American mathematicians
- Space race
- Women mathematicians
- African American women
- African American mathematicians
- Space race
- African Americans
- Women
- Target audience
- juvenile
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- young readers' edition
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step
- Control code
- 1693630
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Lccn
- 2016952958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780062662385
- (OCoLC)964450826
- Label
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space, Margot Lee Shetterly
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Setting the Scene -- A Door Opens -- Mobilization -- A New Beginning -- The Double V -- The "Colored" Computers -- War Birds -- The Duration -- Breaking Barriers -- No Limits -- The Area Rule -- An Exceptional Mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, Gifted, and Black -- What a Difference a Day Makes -- Writing the Textbook on Space -- With All Deliberate Speed -- Model Behavior -- Degrees of Freedom -- Out of the Past, the Future -- America Is for Everybody -- One Small Step
- Control code
- 1693630
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
-
- Young readers' edition.
- First edition.
- Extent
- 231 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062662385
- Lccn
- 2016952958
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780062662385
- (OCoLC)964450826
Subject
- trueAfrican Americans -- Biography
- trueRace relations
- trueRacism in employment
- trueRacism in politics and government
- trueSpace programs -- International competition
- trueSpace race
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueWomen -- Biography
- trueWomen mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueUnited States -- History -- 20th century
- trueAfrican American mathematicians
- African American mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile literature
- trueAfrican American women
- African American women -- Biography | Juvenile literature
Genre
Included in
- trueRead-Alouds for Grade 4 Nonfiction
- trueSTEAM - Math : Fiction and Nonfiction for Grades 3-5
- trueAmelia Bloomer Lists - Middle Grades Nonfiction: 2018
- trueBest STEM Books: 2018
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