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Synopsis. Shetterly started working on the book in 2010. [2] The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson ...
The library was founded by Ola Ronke Akinmowo in 2015. Initially, Akinmowo used social media to ask people to send her any books written by Black women. After some weeks, Akinmowo received about 100 books for her project. The library's holdings grew to about 450 books in 2016, and to about 1000 books in 2018.
African-American women were hired as mathematicians to do technical computing needed to support aeronautical and other research. They included such women as Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, who had careers of decades at NASA. [1] Among Johnson's projects was calculating the flight path for the United States' first mission into space in ...
Even the premise is a bit comedic; a woman whose name is sometimes shortened to Dolly holding her husband’s sex doll, who’s name is Zoey, meaning life. (“Dolores,” in case you’re ...
Truth, a formerly enslaved person, delivered the speech to a crowd gathered at the Universalist Old Stone Church in Akron for the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention. In the speech, Truth drew upon ...
The horror-thriller is a fascinating turn from Yoon, whose YA love stories including 'Everything Everything' and 'The Sun Is Also a Star' made her a bestselling sensation.
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors".
The book was adapted into a stage play of the same name. 2003 Lou Arrendale and his co-workers Speed of Dark: Elizabeth Moon: 2004 Ben Niets was alles wat hij zei (Nothing Was All He Said) Nic Balthazar: The book was adapted into the drama film Ben X (2007). 2004 Natalie Flanagan Al Capone Does My Shirts: Gennifer Choldenko