Black History Month Collection

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"Hidden Figures" is a paperback book with an image from the movie with three actors portraying prominent black women mathematicians standing on a NASA emblem against a rocket launch backdrop.
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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
$ 17.99
A blue paperback book with black & white photography of the four young girls in the story.
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly
$ 8.99
"The Girl With a Mind for Math" is a hardcover book with a green cover representing a chalkboard. A young Raye Montague is drawing math equations on the chalkboard.
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The Girl with a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague By Julia Finley Mosca
$ 17.99
A thought bubble with computer code looms next to the figure of a young Dorthy Vaughan standing next to an extensive computing system. It is a paperback book with a green background.
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Computer Decoder: Dorothy Vaughan, Computer Scientist by Andi Diehn, Illustrated by Katie Mazeika
$ 9.95
It is a hardcover 9.9" x 8.1". It is an illustrated image of Bessie Coleman looking through a window in a spaceship out into space. The vast universe surrounds her. The title is in white. The author and illustrator, and sub-title are in yellow.
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Blast Off Into Space Like Mae Jemison by Caroline Moss, Illustrated by Sinem Erkas
$ 15.99
"What Color is My World" has a red cover with radiating lines from t a glowing light bulb. I'm in the middle.
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What Color is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors by Kareem Abdul-Jabber, Raymond Obstfeld, Illustrated by Ben Boos and A.G. Ford
$ 17.99
It is a paperback book that is 9" x 6". The cover is an illustrated picture of Katherine Johnson, Bessie Coleman, and Mae Jemison. their portraits are in the clouds, and a space shuttle is leaving from the corner.
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Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids by Kimberly Brown Pellum, PhD
$ 9.99
There is a black cotton t-shirt with Dope Black Scientist written across the front in white.
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Dope Black Scientist T-Shirt
$ 25.99
This full deck of cards ( with numbers and suits for actual gameplay) features 26 profiles of women and gender minorities in physics careers—including the Exploratorium's own senior physicist, Desiré Whitmore.
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Across the Spectrum: Women & Gender Minorities in Physics Careers Playing Cards
$ 12.00
A 16oz pint glass with an image of Alice Ball with chemistry symbols around the outside printed in black. A golden beer fills the clear glass to show contrast against the black printed sections
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Alice Ball Pint Glass
$ 18.95
Plush finger puppet of Bessie Coleman in her 1920's aviation attire.
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Bessie Coleman Magnetic Finger Puppet
$ 6.95
Illustrated book cover graph paper with red science and invention drawing. A young girl, Ada Twist, and her brother lookout.11.3" x 9.3" hardcover book.
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Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
$ 17.95
A red shirt with an illustrated image of Katherine Johnson spinning a globe with mathematical equations is on the blue board behind her.
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Katherine Johnson Trailblazer T-Shirt
$ 28.00
"Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" is a hardcover book. The cover is a photograph of the Milky Way with a person holding a book in silhouette.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
$ 18.95
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry is a paperback book. It is 9.1 x 6.1  inches in dimension. The cover is white, with drawings of different space-related planets, satellites, asteroids, and black holes appear on the cover in purple, yellow, red, orange, and blue-green.   
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Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Gregory Mone
$ 11.95
A young Katherine Johnson sits on a chair in front of a moon image decorated with different mathematical formulas. The paperback book is blue, with yellow text, and is 11.3" x 9.4".
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Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk
$ 18.99
A woman wearing a white shirt with the periodic table of elements of the front. She is standing in front of a colorful skateboard exhibit at the Exploratorium.
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Exploratorium Periodic Table T-Shirt Unisex
$ 24.00
"So you want to talk about race" is a hardcover book with a beige cover with a speech bubble with text emphasized around, "talk about race."
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
$ 27.00
A young girl in a lab coat looking at the green Botany Kit with six thriving plants growing in it.
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Botany Experimental Greenhouse
$ 39.95
A young girl sitting at a table uses the Zoomy handheld digital microscope to look closer at a lemon. The magnified image of the lemon is on the screen of the child's laptop computer.
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Zoomy Digital Microscope
$ 60.00
A hardcover book with a colorful illustrated image in green, blue, white, brown, black, and red of a young girl sitting at a table in her science lab.
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Goodnight Lab by Chris Ferrie
$ 17.99
"Ecosystems" is a comic book-style paperback; there is an illustration of the Max Axiom out in nature with different wildlife all around.
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Exploring Ecosystems with Max Axiom by Agnieszka Jòzefina Biskup
$ 7.95
It is a blue box with an image of the clip-on microscope attached to a digital device with sample cells sitting on the left side.
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Cells Under a Microscope
$ 34.95
An 8-inch white candle with an illustrated image of Harriet Tubman on the front. She is holding a lighted lantern. There are constellations above her head, and her name appears at the bottom in yellow against a black background.
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Harriet Tubman Secular Saint Candle
$ 12.99