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What does specialization mean?
Expertise in a specific field
Knowing a lot about a specific thing
What does prejudice mean?
discrimination against someone
What does segregated mean?
To separate people
What does NACA mean?
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Who proclaimed that the United States would put a man on the moon before 1970?
President John F. Kennedy
Name the Supreme Court case that ended segregation in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
What was NOT a nickname for Langley employees?
a. brain busters
B. NACA Nuts
C. Weirdos
D. Langlites
Langlites
Where was Langley located?
Hampton, Virginia
What does NASA mean?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Explain the meaning of Double V.
Stands for
Victory in the War and
Victory in the Civil Rights struggle
Miriam Mann
Name the first African American woman to leave the computing pool and get a chance at a research job, working directly for an engineer.
Dorothy Hoover
Name the person who became the section head o the West Area Computers.
Dorothy Vaughan
Name the person who later became the go-to person for IBM Computers because she learned the computer language "Fortran" in 1951.
Dorothy Vaughan
What country was the country competing with during the Space Race?
Russia / Soviet Union
Name the first African American Woman to be granted permission to attend engineering course provided by the University of Virginia, which were held at the all-white Hampton High School.
Mary Winston Jackson
Name the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
Chuck Yeager
Name the first African American military pilots who fought during WWII.
Tuskegee Airmen
Name the engineer who helped her son win the Soapbox derby
Mary Winston Jackson
Who were the Red Tails?
Tuskegee Airmen
Name the woman who worked alongside engineers and was asked by John Glenn's to check the IBM computer's calculations before he would go up in orbit around the Earth.
Katherine Goble Johnson
Who was the engineer at NASA who co-authored a research report with Katherine Goble Johnson
Ted Skopinski
Name the Civil Rights Leader who supported desegregation and pushed President FDR to sign an executive order opening up hiring rules for African Americans.
A Phillip Randolph
Name the Virginia senator who supported segregation
Harry Byrd
Who was the woman who attended school with Katherine's daughters and worked as a data analysist at NASA
Christine Mann Darden