Shetterly, Margot Lee,

Hidden figures [young reader's edition] : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly. - Young readers' edition. - 231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.

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 from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.

ISBN: 9781338226843

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Biography.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women mathematicians--United States--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
African American mathematicians--Biography.
Space race.

LC Class. No.: QA27.5 / .L44 2016d

Dewey Class. No.: 510.92/520973 B