Download or read book Hidden Figures written by Margot Lee Shetterly and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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- ).