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Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race  Cover Image Book Book

Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race

Summary: Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were hardworking and persistent and most important, smart. And that's why NASA hired them as mathematicians, also known as colored computers, to help send the United States into space for the very first time. This inspiring story brings to life these four hidden figures and what they overcame to succeed, changing not only their own lives, but the face of air and space travel forever.

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  • ISBN: 9780062742469
  • Physical Description: 40 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Subject: United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Space race -- Juvenile literature
Topic Heading: BLM
Black lives matter

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  • 14 of 14 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.

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Smithers Public Library JNF 510.9252 LEE (Text) 35101011014953 Junior Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were hardworking and persistent and most important, smart. And that's why NASA hired them as mathematicians, also known as colored computers, to help send the United States into space for the very first time. This inspiring story brings to life these four hidden figures and what they overcame to succeed, changing not only their own lives, but the face of air and space travel forever.
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