Hidden Figures Illustrated Edition - The American Dream Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, Hidden Figures is the never-before-told story of NASA''s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America''s space program--and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now. 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. Freshman Common Read : University of Mary Washington, MIT, Cedar Crest College, University of Houston, SUNY Oneonta, University of West Virginia, College of William and Mary, Lafayette College, Palm Beach State College, Lone Star College--among others

Product details

• Authors: Margot Lee Shetterly
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780062798954
• ISBN: 978-0-06-279895-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: Women, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: BIG IDEAS, HISTORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Women's Studies, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, WOMEN'S STUDIES: WOMEN'S HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: WOMEN'S STUDIES, SCIENCE: Space Science / General, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: GENDER