Hidden figures
(Large Print)
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Published
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Children's Large Type Nonfiction | J LP 629.408 She | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Large type books.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Large type books.
Space race -- Juvenile literature.
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Published
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
281 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or 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 by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. 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 history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments." --,(Source of summary not specified)
Target Audience
Ages 8-12.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shetterly, M. L. (2017). Hidden figures (Young readers' edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shetterly, Margot Lee. 2017. Hidden Figures. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures Young readers' edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
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