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Author
Lexile measure
1350L
Language
English
Description
"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers! This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to the life of Benjamin Banneker, the African American astronomer and mathematician who helped survey Washington, D.C., and who wrote several successful almanacs"--T.p. verso.
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition.
Lexile measure
1350L
Physical Desc
10 books (349 pages), 1 large print book (543), 1 audio book in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own...