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The #1 New York TimesbestsellerThe phenomenal truestory of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuelsome of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory historyessential to our understanding of race, d i s c r i m i n a t i o n, and achievement in modernAmerica. The basis for the smash Academy Award-n...

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GENERIC
Titre principal
Hidden Figures: Young Readers' Edition of Hidden Figures―Celebrating African American Women Pioneers at NASA
Editeur
William Morrow Paperbacks
Type de produit
paperback
Présentation du livre
paperback
Release date
12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine
English
ISBN
62363603
Dimensions
5.31 x 0.83 x 8 inches
Nombre de pages de livre
368 pages
Langue - Librairie
English
Résumé
The #1 New York TimesbestsellerThe phenomenal truestory of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuelsome of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory historyessential to our understanding of race, d i s c r i m i n a t i o n, and achievement in modernAmerica. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominatedfilm starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, KirstenDunst, and Kevin Costner.Before John Glennorbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicatedfemale mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules andadding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, andastronauts, into space. Among theseproblem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women,some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated toteaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called intoservice during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronauticsindustry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, theseoverlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and theyanswered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating,high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia’s JimCrow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, thewomen of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve oneof the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in theCold War, and complete domination of the heavens. Starting in World WarII and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the SpaceRace, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan,Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African Americanwomen who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chroniclestheir careers over nearly three decades they fa
Auteur(s)
Margot Lee Shetterly
Date de parution
12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM