People
The author of Hidden Figures
Who is Margot Lee Shetterly?
The city where Langley Laboratory is located
What is Hampton?
The year that the US landed the first man on the moon
What is 1969?
Dorothy Vaughan was a language arts teacher
What is False?
Dorothy gave this up in order to get a job as a teacher and provide for her parents
What is graduate school?
This woman was a former school teacher who was later promoted to the head of West Computing
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
The place where the sign that read "Colored Computers" was located
What is the cafeteria/ lunchroom?
The year that the USSR launched Sputnik 1
What is 1957?
Langley Labs produced ships during the wartime
What is False?
Katherine always did this when growing up, which showed how much she loved mathematics
What is counting everything?
This woman showed a talent for math at an early age and graduated high school when she was 14
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The state where the book takes place
What is Virginia?
What is 1960?
Howard and Dorothy Vaughan had 6 children together
What is True?
Mary Jackson was a part of this organization as a volunteer and leader
What is the Girl Scouts?
This woman worked as a computer and took away a sign that read “Colored Computers”
Who is Miriam Mann?
The building that the African American computers worked in
What is the West End/ West Computing building?
The year that the East Computing pool disbanded
What is 1947?
Dorothy was the first African American woman to become the head/ manager in NACA
What is True?
Christine Darden (Mann at the time) participated in this in downtown Hampton
What is a sit-in?
This man was a chemistry teacher who secretly married Katherine Goble
Who is James "Jimmy" Johnson?
The name of the high school that Dorothy worked at before working at Langley
What is R.R. Moton high school?
The year that NACA became NASA/ NASA was created
What is 1958?
With new advances, the airplanes made at Langley can now break the speed of light
What is False (Speed of Sound)?
This is the black sorority that Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and many other West Computers had joined when they were in college
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha?