The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.

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 is a narrative non-fiction book that covers 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.

Publisher	William Morrow
Published	2016
Pages	346
Category	Non-Fiction
Library Cross Reference	629.4082 LEE
ISBN:	9780062363602