Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly.

Author: Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.

Edition Statement:Young readers' edition, First edition.

Imprint:New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,, [2016]

Description231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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

Note: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.

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