Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Summary: The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory contribution that is as essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America as Between the World and Me and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

Record details

ISBN: 9780062363596
Physical Description: print
regular print
xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- Double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- Duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the barriers -- Home by the sea -- Area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go.