MARCH 2024
 
Hidden Figures:
The American Dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
by Margot Lee Shetterly

An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
 
Genre: Science, Women's History
Tone: Inspiring
Writing Style: Richly detailed
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Film Adaptation
 
Young Readers Edition
 
 
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