Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Content: xviii + 349 pp., bibl., index
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins
Publication notes: A teacher's guide is available
Description: Covers Christine Darden, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan.
Main subject: Autobiography and Biography
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology
ISBN: 9780062363596 (cloth); 9780062363602 (pap.); 9780062363619 (ebook)
Citation: Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4046.
Updated: 04-29-2025

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