(Ebook) Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly ISBN 9780062662385, 0062662384, B01HM2A472

(Ebook) Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly ISBN 9780062662385, 0062662384, B01HM2A472

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space."Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures is the story and celebration of the four dozen unsung black women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from 1943 to 1980... ...it is a historical homage to the fearlessness of mathematical minds too brilliant to be hindered by racism and sexism..."  -  Mekeisha Madden Toby, The Los Angeles Review Of BooksStarting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.