TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shetterly, Margot Lee,|0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016025954|eauthor
TI  - Hidden figures: : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race 
SN  - 9780062363602
AV  - 510.92520973 S55h c2016 
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - ; United States
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women mathematicians
KW  - United States
KW  - BIOGRAPHY
KW  - Space race
KW  - African American women
KW  - African American mathematicians
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-328) and index
N2  -   "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
ER  -