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MAY 15 IS NATIONAL BIOGRAPHER'S DAY
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Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives,...
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MAY 19 IS MALCOLM X DAY
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In this "dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, ... Peniel E. Joseph reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a ... revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era they came to define"--