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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Her schoolhouse was set on fire -- by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry. Trying to open and maintain one of the first...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espa�nol
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
En el contexto del Sur de Jim Crow con su segregaci�on racial, y el movimiento de derechos civiles. Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matem�aticas, que desempe�naron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido an�onimas... hasta ahora.Antes de que John Glenn girara en �orbita alrededor de la Tierra, o Neil Armstrong...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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...
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