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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.

Description231 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Abstract: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.

ISBN:9780062662385 (trade hardcover bdg.)

ISBN:0062662384 (trade hardcover bdg.)

ISBN:9780062662378 (pbk.)

ISBN:0062662376 (pbk.)

ISBN:9780606396233 (Turtleback)

ISBN:0606396233 (Turtleback)

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