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Black Authors: Youth Nonfiction (SCPL-YS)
Black History Month
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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-).
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K&T - Women's History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Teens)
Women's History Month (teens)
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Summer Reading Challenge 2023 (Teens)
Women's History Month (teens)
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"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11."--
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