Katherine Goble: The Three African American Women In America

During the year 1950, there were three young African American women who joined NACA. In other words the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Before the three intelligent African American women were hired NASA would hire a lot of people to work with them. They had to do math equations and use calculations to find out the problem. But these three women made discovery as we know how it is today, they got to where they did but by proving people that anyone even African Americans can do what others can do. One out of the three African American women was named Mary Jackson, she lived in Hampton Virginia. She had graduated from high school and had gotten a bachelor degree from Hampton Institute in mathematics before joining NACA.
When she had joined she was involved with computers which means she had to work with wind tunnels and flight experiments. “She discovered that occasionally it was something as simple as a lack of a couple of courses, or perhaps the location of the individual, perhaps the assignments given them, and of course, the ever present glass ceiling that most women seemed to encounter.” paragraph 9. After her 30 years of working in NACA, being an engineer, Mary had chosen to help women and other people get promoted for being supervisors. She retired from NASA in 1985. Her part of importance was to start a change and help others because other people wouldn't help as well. The second women was named Katherine Goble.
She lived in West Virginia. In 1953, she joined the West Area Computing section. For missions she had to analyze Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961. The problem they had in the area was that they did not trust African Americans or in that case women. Since Goble was more known for her work John Glenn had requested a mission. The same job for orbital missions in 1962. Although they did not trust African Americans Glenn felt the need to want Goble herself to run through the equations to make sure they were safe. “When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Katherine Goble talks about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon orbiting Command and Service Module” NASA wrote on paragraph 15. In 1986 Goble retired from
NASA. The last women was named Dorothy Vaughan.
She lived in Kansa City but in 1943 she began her career as a math teacher in Farmville, Virginia. But then was hired at NASA because the laboratory had to process. Another problem they had was that they needed to work separately from white people computers and supervisors that were white. In 1949, she became the first African NACA supervisor and made her employees receive promotions. In 1958, NACA became NASA. Dorothy was an expert at programming the Fortran and computer lounge which meant having to work with a satellite launching rocket called Scout. In 1971 she had retired from NASA. After they retired the West computer names had been remembered. They made the biggest impact in history. Having to become nearly figures people can look up to or more of a side effect of the few African American names celebrated in history. The women had fought many battles throughout their journey and against separate bathrooms and being restricted not be close to other places as well. These that impacted them on a daily did not make them stop on what they believe they could
do. They took response to make the affront on as a their own personal vendetta. In their minds they knew that these small actions in some way were more important or certainly as important as the individual actions. As they knew “H” standing for history as being the huge figures like Martin Luther King. Making a change in women's rights were what they wanted to do because they knew being treated differently was not right. People needed them to believe in what they could do instead of judging of their skin color. In conclusion these three women did make the biggest change in history. They all had something in common that made everyone believe that anyone can do the same thing you can not only because you're not the same color does not mean you can not. Like Mary Jackson was one of the human computers portrayed. Katherine Goble did trajectory analysis and Dorothy became the first African American supervisor. Civil rights even now is still a big thing going on.