Seasonal Spotlight: Women in History

Take a look at some extraordinary women throughout history.
 

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1. Becoming

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Author:
Obama, Michelle, 1964-
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Michelle Obama describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private in a deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations.

2. Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

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Author:
Shetterly, Margot Lee
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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,...