
Hidden Figures (2016)
314 pages 3.9/5 Goodreads
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 despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780062742469
Content Warnings
Identity & Discrimination
Hate crimes (depicted) (referenced)Racial slurs / racism (depicted)