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Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly【電子書籍】 Worth BooksThe Summary of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book By Margot Lee Shetterly【電子書籍】 Goldmine Reads
 

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  • <p><strong>So much to read, so little time? Get an overview of <em>Hidden Figures</em>, the true story about the African American female mathematicians who helped NASA win the space race.</strong></p> <p>Margot Lee Shetterly’s <em>Hidden Figures</em> tells the incredible real-life account of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Dardenーwho, in a time when black women faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles, went to work as “calculators” at NASA. With pencils, paper, and slide rules, they transformed airplane, rocket, and satellite designsーand ensured a World War II victory.</p> <p>Despite the social and political climate at the height of Jim Crow, these women rose up and became integral to the project that put the first man on the moon. From World War II to the Cold War to the civil rights movement to the space race, <em>Hidden Figures</em> tells the story of four remarkable women whose contributions to science led to some of NA...
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  • <p>In Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly reveals the real-life stories of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden ー the black women of NASA who braved the insurmountable and conquered the impossible. Even with Virginia's Jim Crow imposing segregation laws, these four African-American women defied the odds against both racial discrimination and gender bias. They were among Langley's all-black "West Computing", a group of women who proved invaluable in the pursuit of both the triumph over the Soviet Union and America's dominion on the race to the heavens. Behind John Glenn's orbital flight and Neil Armstrong's iconic moonwalk were these exceptional "human computers". Armed with slide rules, papers, and pencils, they created satellite, rocket, and airplane designs and helped guarantee the nation's victory in World War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Race.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天...
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