Hidden Figures The True Story of Fou..., Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures The True Story of Fou..., Margot Lee Shetterly
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race

Author: Margot Lee Shetterly

Narrator: Octavia Spencer

Unabridged: 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Weston Woods

Published: 06/07/2019


Synopsis

Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award–nominated movie, Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to young audiences!Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good.They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world.

About Margot Lee Shetterly

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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