The Ladies of Hidden Figures
This lady attended school with Katherine's daughters and worked as a data analyst at NASA.
Christine Mann Darden
In 1958, NACA changed its name to this acronym.
True or false: African American women earned equal pay as white employees.
False
Mathematicians at Langley were known as ______.
Computers
Katherine Goble Johnson
The Soviet Union
This term means discrimination against someone or being disliked because of skin color and/or gender.
Prejudice
This term means separated (people of different races)
Segregated
Who was the woman who helped her son in the Soap Box Derby?
Mary Jackson
Hampton, Virginia
Victory in the war (World War II) and victory in the Civil Rights struggle (answers may vary)
This was the reason Dorothy Vaughn was hesitant to take her job at Langley.
She would be far away from her children (answer varies).
Who was the woman who became the Section Head of the West Area Computers and later the go-to person for the IBM computer?
Dorothy Vaughn
expertise in a specific field (answer varies)
Tuskegee Airmen
This president proclaimed to put a man on the moon before the year 1970.
John F. Kennedy
This lady hid the "colored" sign from the cafeteria table continuously until it never came back.
Miriam Mann
This mission was the Apollo mission that successfully put Neil Armstrong on the moon.
Apollo 11
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools, allowing students like Ruby Bridges and the Little Rock Nine to go to school with white students.
Brown v. Board of Education
Chuck Yeager