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Who are the authors?
Margot Lee Shetterly w/ Winifred Conking
Who is the illustrator ?
Laura Freeman
What are the names of the 4 women?
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden
What were the women good at ?
Math
1943
How did Dorothy Vaughan want to serve her country?
By working for the NACA
What did NACA do?
They designed airplanes
Who were considered computers in the 1940s?
People
Why did people think it be hard for Dorothy to get a job at the lab?
Because she is black
Where did Dorothy live?
Virgina
True or False.
the white and black computers were separated
true
What year did America win the war?
1945
In 1951, what were the Americans and Russians competing for?
Who could build the best planes
What does NACA stand for?
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
what is a wind tunnel?
A machine like a huge metal box with a powerful fan attached
In 1951
What did the wind tunnel help with?
It helped them test model airplanes
why was it hard for Mary to become an engineer?
She couldn't take the math classes because they were taught at the white school
Mary became the first what?
First African American female engineer
When did Katherine join the team?
In 1953
What was Katherine's job?
To test the actual planes while they were flying in the air
What did katherine's research do?
Figure out to prevent future plane crashes
what is turbulence?
Dangerous gusts of air
Why couldn't Katherine go to meetings with other experts?
Women weren't allowed to attend meetings
True or false?
Katherine became the first woman in her group to sign her name to one of the groups reports
true