Hidden figures (2018, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
English language
Published May 11, 2018 by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
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- ).
Lots of detail, glimpses of many lives and a view into a period of history that I haven't studied before. Much less plot-driven than the movie.
