03086cam a2200409 i 4500 345747068 TxAuBib 20180430120000.0 160217s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780062363602 0062363603 (OCoLC)939993833 TxAuBib rda Lee Shetterly, Margot,. Hidden figures [Book] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly. First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes reading group guide (pages 347-349). Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index. Author's note -- Prologue. -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go. -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Reading group guide. "Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] 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"--Back cover. 20180430. United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Biography. Women mathematicians United States Biography. African American women Biography. African American mathematicians Biography. Space race. Biographies. Biography. Biographies. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/ "The true story of 'Hidden Figures,' the forgotten women who helped win the space race," Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, September 8, 2016: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a24429/hidden-figures-real-story-nasa-women-computers/ "The real story of 'Hidden Figures' and NASA's women computers, Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, December 21, 2016: