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Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

  • FINISHED
  • Finished January 2019
  • First published 2016

narrative nonfiction biography

Tells the story of the Black women mathematicians who worked as human computers at NASA from the 1940s onward.   Shetterly covers their work on flight and space programs and the segregation they faced at Langley.

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