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020			_a9780008201326
082			_a510.9252 SHE
100			_aShetterly, Margot Lee
245			_aHidden figures: the untold story of the African American women who helped win the space race
260			_aLondon: _bWilliam Collins, _c2017
300			_axviii, 346 p.: _bpbk.: _c20 cm
504			_aIncludes Bibliographical References, Index and Notes
520			_aSet 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/
650			_aMathematics
650			_aBiography
650			_aNASA’s African-American Women Mathematicians
650			_aWomen Mathematicians
650			_aAfrican American Studies
650			_aAmerica’s space program
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