Shetterly, Margot Lee,|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016025954|eauthor <br/><br/>
Hidden figures:   the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / 
by Margot Lee Shetterly. 
 - First edition. 
 - New York, New York :  William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,  [2016]. 
 - xviii, 349 pages:  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-328) and index. 
<br/><br/>   "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>in English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780062363602 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration --Officials and employees--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women mathematicians--United States--BIOGRAPHY<br/>Space race.<br/>African American women--BIOGRAPHY<br/>African American mathematicians--BIOGRAPHY
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>510.92520973 S55h c2016