Margot Lee Shetterly

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.

Un recuento de las contribuciones previamente desconocidas de las mujeres afroamericanas de matemáticas de la NASA al programa espacial de Estados Unidos describe cómo fueron segregados de sus homólogos blancos por las leyes de Jim Crow a pesar de sus éxitos. An account of the previously unheralded contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts...