Books & Writing
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly - signed copy
- Item Number
- 409
- Estimated Value
- 60 USD
- Sold
- 47 USD to qkgportland
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
You've heard the names John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. What about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith or Barbara Holley? Most Americans have no idea that from the 1940s through the 1960s, a cadre of African-American women formed part of the country’s space work force, or that this group—mathematical ground troops in the Cold War—helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens.
HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE recovers the history of these pioneering women and situates it in the intersection of the defining movements of the American century: the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the quest for gender equality.
Margot Lee Shetterly's book is the New York Times #1 Best Seller that inspired the recent Fox movie!
This is a signed copy donated by Margot Lee Shetterly.
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