Mary Jackson
Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921, in Hampton, Virginia, the daughter of Ella and Frank Winston. She attended Hampton’s all-black schools and graduated with high honors from George P. Phenix training school in 1937 Where she lived at they had to deal with a bad case of racial segregation. After, five years she earned a two part bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical science from Hampton Institute. Mary became one of NASA’s first black female engineer. Also, while serving a very important role in the development of the space program, she helped other women and minorities advance their careers. Even white; now they even have a movie (Hidden Figures) to tell the story in 2016.
After, college, Mary had taken a lot of jobs. For example; she took teacher, bookkeeper, and receptionist. They did not have a lot of jobs for African Americans or as many that the whites had and it wasn’t fair. The in 1951 she heard about the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor agency to NASA) in Langley, Virginia. It was back called way back NACA before it was called National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When’ she signed up for the job after a little bit she found out she got the job. She worked at the West Computers section as a research mathematician; known at the time as a "human computer." IN 1953 she moved to the Compressibility Research Division of NACA. …show more content…
At NASA, all the bathrooms and the cafeterias were that said white or colored was discriminated. In the company cafeteria, whites could select their food choices and sit in a lunch room. Blacks had to make their food requests to a cafeteria attendant and then go back to their desks and eat, an experience Jackson considered a loss of
Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921, in Hampton, Virginia, the daughter of Ella and Frank Winston. She attended Hampton’s all-black schools and graduated with high honors from George P. Phenix training school in 1937 Where she lived at they had to deal with a bad case of racial segregation. After, five years she earned a two part bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical science from Hampton Institute. Mary became one of NASA’s first black female engineer. Also, while serving a very important role in the development of the space program, she helped other women and minorities advance their careers. Even white; now they even have a movie (Hidden Figures) to tell the story in 2016.
After, college, Mary had taken a lot of jobs. For example; she took teacher, bookkeeper, and receptionist. They did not have a lot of jobs for African Americans or as many that the whites had and it wasn’t fair. The in 1951 she heard about the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor agency to NASA) in Langley, Virginia. It was back called way back NACA before it was called National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When’ she signed up for the job after a little bit she found out she got the job. She worked at the West Computers section as a research mathematician; known at the time as a "human computer." IN 1953 she moved to the Compressibility Research Division of NACA. …show more content…
At NASA, all the bathrooms and the cafeterias were that said white or colored was discriminated. In the company cafeteria, whites could select their food choices and sit in a lunch room. Blacks had to make their food requests to a cafeteria attendant and then go back to their desks and eat, an experience Jackson considered a loss of