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Sep 8, 2016 · “These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary,” says Margot Lee Shetterly. Her new book Hidden Figures shines light on the inner details of these women’s lives and...
Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins).
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Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly features true stories about four Black women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. These four women are Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden.
Hidden Figures is set between the 1930s and 1960s, and describes the barriers for Black women in science at that time. This book contains biographical information about four influential mathematicians and engineers, all of whom contributed to the space race while working for NASA. Margot Lee Shetterly's father worked as a research scientist for NAS...
If you are teaching a lesson covering the topic of any of the people featured in this book, there are several resources available that you can download to assist with your lesson plan. For example, this Women Who Helped to Build NASA Reading Comprehension – Dorothy Vaughanis ideal to use for a writing activity in your lesson plan. You can also down...
Margot Lee Shetterly is an American non-fiction writer. Her father worked for NASA at Langley Research Center, and her mother was an English professor. Learn more about the story of Dorothy Vaughan by completing our reading comprehension activity.
Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were ...
Sep 19, 2016 · In Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (public library), Margot Lee Shetterly tells the untold story of these brilliant women, once on the frontlines of our cultural leaps and since sidelined by the selective collective memory we call history.
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is a 2018 picture book by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, illustrated by Laura Freeman.
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Sep 6, 2016 · Margot Lee Shetterly. The #1 New York Times Bestseller. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
