African American Scientist (Science 2022-23)
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- No Girls AllowedNo Blacks Allowed
- Hello, I am Mary Jackson! I would tell you about what I do-but first you should probably know the schools that helped me do all of these things! From when I was born April 9,1921 I loved math and science....
- So I studied the fields of math and physics at Hampton University and the University of Virginia.
- No girls allowed. No blacks allowed.
- Even as a black woman I joined the west computers at the national advisory committee of aerospace. There, my calculations as a "human computer"were vital to NASA in multiple moon landings and trajectories! Not to mention that later I became the first black woman aerospace engineer.
- Hey! You shouldn't be here!
- As an african american woman, Mary W. Jackson had to try extra hard to be at the top of her field. Nevertheless,
- What you see around here is the biggest challenge I faced in my career. As an african american woman, I had to push really hard to be at the top of my field. After teaching an all girls school I moved to what would soon be NASA, where this was still a problem! But I continued to fight!
- she became the first black woman aerospace engineer.
- No Girls Allowed. No Blacks Allowed.
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