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Dorothy Blue African-American Character Analysis

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Dorothy Vaughan When Dorothy first came to Langley to join the West Computing, she’d had a stable teaching career and a family at home. Dorothy was a natural leader, even if not always shown, and she was really good at math. While America was caught up in the space race, Dorothy taught herself the programming language of FORTAN, and later headed the programming division of the Analysis and Computation Division at Langley. Dorothy is a brave African-American woman, with natural leadership skills, Dorothy is a protagonist with a personality like no other. In the beginning, Dorothy seems to be a normal African-American woman with a large family (husband and six children) to take care of. Her family depended on her salary as a teacher, however,
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