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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
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.
2) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
1st Vintage classics ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.