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Hidden Figures

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)
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