Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly, 346 pages.
Shetterly focuses on four African-American women who were hired by the NACA, and the organization that followed it, NASA. Approximately 1,000 women with math and engineering skills were hired as computers during World War II, the Cold War, and during the space program. Of those, some were African American and Shetterly focuses on telling the stories of four of those women.