TY  - GEN
AU  - Shetterly, Margot Lee
TI  - Hidden figures: the untold story of the African American women who helped win the space race
SN  - 9780008201326
U1  - 510.9252 SHE 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Mathematics 
KW  - Biography
KW  - NASA’s African-American Women Mathematicians
KW  - Women Mathematicians
KW  - African American Studies
KW  - America’s space program
N1  - Includes Bibliographical References, Index and Notes
N2  - Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.


Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘colored computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.


https://www.harpercollins.co.nz/9780008201326/hidden-figures
ER  -