<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sppl/rss/search?query=Shetterly%2C%20Margot%20Lee&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:04:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The #1 New York Times bestseller   The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.   Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.   Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.   Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.   Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2841991</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2841991</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2841991138</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062363619/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[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-).]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2384782</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2384782</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2384782138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062742469/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=985072992</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talentos ocultos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matem&aacute;ticas, que desempe&ntilde;aron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido an&oacute;nimas... hasta ahora.   La fenomenal historia de mujeres matem&aacute;ticas afroamericanas de la NASA en la vanguardia del movimiento feminista y de derechos civiles, cuyos c&aacute;lculos impulsaron uno de los mayores logros espaciales de Estados Unidos. Ahora una gran pel&iacute;cula protagonizada por Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, y Kevin Costner.  Antes de que John Glenn girara en &oacute;rbita alrededor de la Tierra, o Neil Armstrong caminara en la luna, un grupo de mujeres profesionales en el &aacute;rea de las matem&aacute;ticas conocidas como &laquo;computadoras humanas&raquo; usaron l&aacute;pices, reglas de c&aacute;lculo, m&aacute;quinas de sumar para escribir las ecuaciones base para el lanzamiento de cohetes y astronautas al espacio. Entre ellas se encuentran un grupo de mujeres afroamericanas excepcionalmente talentosas, algunas de las mentes m&aacute;s brillantes de su generaci&oacute;n. Originalmente relegadas a ense&ntilde;ar matem&aacute;ticas en escuelas p&uacute;blicas segregadas del sur, fueron llamadas a servir durante la escasez laboral de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando la industria aeron&aacute;utica de Estados Unidos se encontraba en extrema necesidad de alguien con conocimientos.  Repentinamente, estas profesionales ten&iacute;an acceso a un empleo digno de sus habilidades y respondieron al llamado del T&iacute;o Sam, se mudaron a Hampton, Virginia, y al fascinante mundo del Laboratorio Aeron&aacute;utico Langley Memorial. A pesar de que las leyes Jim Crow de Virginia les obligaba a estar separadas de sus hom&oacute;logos blancos, el grupo de mujeres afroamericanas &laquo;Computadoras del oeste&raquo; ayud&oacute; a Estados Unidos a alcanzar una de las metas m&aacute;s deseadas: una victoria decisiva sobre la Uni&oacute;n Sovi&eacute;tica durante la Guerra Fr&iacute;a, y el dominio completo de los cielos.  Iniciando en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y hasta la Guerra Fr&iacute;a, el Movimiento de los derechos civiles y la carrera espacial, Figuras ocultas entrelaza las historias de Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson y Christine Darden, cuatro mujeres afroamericanas que participaron en algunos de los mayores &eacute;xitos de la NASA. Es la cr&oacute;nica de sus carreras a lo largo de casi tres d&eacute;cadas en las que enfrentaron desaf&iacute;os, alianzas y utilizaron su intelecto para cambiar sus vidas y el futuro de su pa&iacute;s.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2840774</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2840774</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2840774138</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>La genialidad no tiene color. la fuerza</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780718092382/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.   Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.   Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.   Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.   Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2814284</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2814284</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shetterly, Margot Lee]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2814284138</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062472076/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens."-- adapted from publisher website.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2291688</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2291688</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Shetterly, Margot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2291688138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062363596/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=950004289</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2336307</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2336307</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Shetterly, Margot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2336307138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062662385/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=964450826</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talentos ocultos]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el contexto del Sur de Jim Crow con su segregación racial, y el movimiento de derechos civiles. Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matemáticas, que desempeñaron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido anónimas& hasta ahora.Antes de que John Glenn girara en órbita alrededor de la Tierra, o Neil Armstrong caminara en la luna, un grupo de profesionales trabajó como ±computadoras humanas¬, calculando las trayectorias de vuelo que permitirían que se produjeran estos logros históricos. Entre ellos había un grupo de brillantes y talentosas mujeres afroamericanas. Apartadas de sus colegas blancos por las leyes de Jim Crow, estas <<omputadoras de color>> como se les conocía, usaban reglas de cálculo, máquinas de sumar, lápiz y papel, para sustentar la naciente industria aeroonáutica de Estados Unidos, y ayudaban a escribir las ecuaciones base para el lanzamiento de cohetes y astronautas al espacio.Este libro presenta los relatos de estas <<omputadoras>>, sus recuerdos personales, entrevistas con ejecutivos e ingenieros de la NASA, documentos de archivos, correspondencia y reportajes de aquella época, trae a la vida el recuerdo de la aventura más grandiosa de Estados Unidos, y de los revolucionarios éxitos de la NASA, por medio de las experiencias de cinco mujeres valientes, audaces, inteligentes, emprendedoras y patrióticas: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden y Gloria Champine.Describiendo la Segunda Guerra Mundial a través la edad de oro de la NASA, tocando la era de los derechos civiles, la carrera del espacio, la Guerra Fría y el movimiento de derechos femeninos, este libro entrelaza una historia de muchos logros científicos e innovaciones tecnológicas con las historias íntimas de cinco mujeres cuya labor cambió al mundo para siempre, y cuyas vidas demuestran cómo en medio de una de las historias más dolorosas de la nación, surgió uno de los momentos de mayor orgullo.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2334257</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2334257</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Shetterly, Margot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2334257138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>el libro que inspiró la película de Twentieth Century Fox basada en la verdadera historia desconocida</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780718092740/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=971498888</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2315277</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2315277</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lee Shetterly, Margot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2315277138</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>[the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781441709585/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=956882140</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden Figures]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history.  Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2323163</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2323163</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2323163138</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1048058160&amp;upc=024543275374</image_url></item></channel></rss>