Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
by Margot Lee shetterly | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0062662376 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0062662376 Global Overview for this book
Registered by candianmanatee of Kitchener, Ontario Canada on 8/8/2017
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From World War II through NASA's golden age, four African-American women confidently and courageously stepped into the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now known as NASA).
Their job? To provide the mathematical calculations that would help increase airplane production during wartime and eventually send the United States into space for the very first time. Hidden Figures follows the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who participated in some of the United States' greatest aeronautic successes. These women lived through and persevered against the backdrop of some of the biggest movements ever to shape our nation's history: the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, and the flight for gender equality. With photographs and rich historical details, Margot Lee Shetterly brings to life the struggles these four women, and others, overcame to forever change the face of air and space travel.
Their job? To provide the mathematical calculations that would help increase airplane production during wartime and eventually send the United States into space for the very first time. Hidden Figures follows the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who participated in some of the United States' greatest aeronautic successes. These women lived through and persevered against the backdrop of some of the biggest movements ever to shape our nation's history: the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, and the flight for gender equality. With photographs and rich historical details, Margot Lee Shetterly brings to life the struggles these four women, and others, overcame to forever change the face of air and space travel.
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