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Name: Hidden Figures
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Author: Margot Lee Shetterly

📘 Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures chronicles the lives of four pioneering African‑American women—Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden—who rose from segregated schools to become key mathematicians at NASA’s Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. Their work on rocket trajectories, orbital calculations, and computer programming helped launch U.S. astronauts, secure victories in the Cold War, and propel the Space Race. Despite Jim Crow segregation and gender discrimination, these "human computers" leveraged their intellect, forged alliances, and reshaped NASA’s history over nearly three decades, illustrating the pivotal role of women and African‑Americans in American science and technology.

First publish date: 2016

Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography

Authors: Margot Lee Shetterly

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