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- )
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography, Oppression & Resilience
Content: STEM
Settings: Northern America, United States of America, Virginia
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Gender Non-Conforming, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Joint Main