But the government agency was in the state of Virginia, where “Jim Crow” laws were in effect. This was in the 1940’s, when “computers” were actually persons who did math by hand.
Dorothy Vaughan got interested during WWII, out of a desire to serve the country by working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the government agency that designed airplanes. Now the author and an illustrator have teamed up to bring the story to children.ĭorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were “ really good” at math, and they loved it enough to want to make a career out of it. Thanks to the book by the same name for adults, as well as the successful movie based on that book, many people know the story of the four African-American women who helped NASA send men into space.
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