Robin Miles
Author
Language
English
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2024 Summer Reading: Kick-Off Kaboom
Black History Month- Adults
NASA's Artemis Project Reading Challenge List
Black History Month- Adults
NASA's Artemis Project Reading Challenge List
Description
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...