Mathematicians

NASA’s African-American Human Computers

Small Section of the Carina Nebula (Author ESA/Hubble & NASA  (CC BY 3.0)via Wikipedia Commons)

 

– – – Books – – –

Lee Shetterly, Margot. 2016. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians
Who Helped Win the Space Race. New York, NY: William Morrow

Edwards, Sue Bradford and Duchess Harris Jd PhD. 2016. Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA (Hidden Heroes).  Essential Library.

– – – Websites – – –

Walsh, Jim. “Duchess Harris shares grandmother’s story in upcoming ‘Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of
NASA’,” Minn Post [Arts & Culture Section], September 13, 2016.

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. “Black Lives and Dark Matter: Calculating Possibility,” The Feminist Wire, August 19, 2016.

“Meet the ‘Rocket Girls,’ The Women Who Charted the Course to Space,” NPR Books

When the Computer Wore a Skirt: Langley’s Computers, 1935-1970

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