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000760448 1001_ $$aShetterly, Margot Lee$$eauthor.
000760448 24510 $$aHidden figures :$$bthe American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race /$$cMargot Lee Shetterly.
000760448 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000760448 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bWilliam Morrow,$$c[2016]
000760448 264_4 $$c©2016
000760448 300__ $$axviii, 346 pages ;$$c24 cm
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000760448 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.
000760448 5050_ $$aA door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the 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.
000760448 520__ $$aBefore John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia, and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
000760448 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bNational Aeronautics and Space Administration$$xOfficials and employees$$vBiography.
000760448 650_0 $$aWomen mathematicians$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000760448 650_0 $$aAfrican American women$$vBiography.
000760448 650_0 $$aAfrican American mathematicians$$vBiography.
000760448 650_0 $$aSpace race.
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