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Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
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During the Second World War and the American space race, Black women mathematicians at the organization that became NASA performed calculations essential to aircraft development and crewed spaceflight. Margot Lee Shetterly follows figures including Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden as they build careers within institutions divided by race and gender. Their individual stories unfold alongside advances in engineering, computing and civil rights, showing both the technical demands of their work and the barriers surrounding it. This is an accessible, character-led history with the breadth of a collective biography and the momentum of technological change.
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