Chapters 1 and 2
The first African American woman who became an engineer at NACA.
Who is Mary Jackson
The place where 18,000 bundles of laundry was processed
What is Camp Pickett
Dorothy was a language arts teacher.
What is False
What Dorothy and other African Americans had to face while eating lunch at Langley
What is segregated seating
this word means "to predict"
What is foreshadow
This woman joined NACA in 1943, the first year the agency began hiring African American women.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan
The amount of time Dorothy Vaughn wrote when she was asked how soon could she start working at Langley
What is 48 hours
Langley produced ships during wartime.
What is False
The printed message on a white cardboard sign in the back of the cafeteria at Langley
What is "Colored Computers"
This word means a human mathematician
What is a computer
This woman showed a talent for math at an early age and started college when she was 14
Who is Katherine Goble Johnson
What was considered a very "good" black job
What is teacher, preacher, doctor, or lawyer
Howard and Dorothy have 6 children together.
What is True
The name of the court case that ruled segregation on interstate buses as illegal
This word means to separate or treat someone differently based on the color of his or her skin
What is segregation
Where manufacturers built the airplanes, developed the designs, and tested the planes.
What is Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
The subject Dorothy Vaughn studied at Wilberforce University
What is math
Dorothy is named the first head African-American manager of NACA.
What is True
He socialized with black people, danced with a black student, and wanted to help African Americans advance in American society, all of which many local whites did not approve
Who is Malcolm MacLean
The study of science of matter, energy, and motion
What is physics
Where black mathematicians were assigned to work in a separate place from the white mathematicians
What is the Warehouse Building
The name of the newspaper where Dorothy Vaughn saw that companies were hiring African American female engineers
What is the Norfolk Journal and Guide
With new advances, the airplanes made at Langley can now break the speed of light.
What is False (speed of sound)
The President that declared that "men of every creed and every race, wherever they lived..." were entitled to freedom of speech, worship, and freedom from fear
Who is President Franklin D. Roosevelt
An unexpected piece of fortune
What is windfall