Period 3 Making our Future Three of the most important women changed our future, especially in the mathematics world. These very special women were Katherine G.Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan. They were female, black women who started working for NACA, who later on became known as NASA. They were hired as “Human Computers” who did calculations for orbital trajectory and performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand. People doubted the three at first because they were women and they were black, but they proved everyone wrong by sending John Glenn into space to orbit and bringing him back. They performed mathematical equations that had not yet existed and changed the mathematical world. Dorothy Vaughan was the eldest of these three women, she was born on September 20th in 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. At an early age her family took her to Morgantown, West Virginia where she graduated from Beechurst High School. Four years later at Wilber University of Ohio she graduated and received a Bachelor's degree in Science and mathematics. She got married to Howard Vaughan and worked as a math teacher before joining the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics also known as NACA. She and her husband moved to …show more content…
Roosevelt executive order established discrimination based on religion, race, and ethnicity in the defense industry was prohibited. That executive order made Dorothy be among the first group of African americans to be hired as a scientist or mathematician. However, President Roosevelt's executive order was not strong enough for local laws to separate colored mathematicians from white ones. Dorothy still took the job at NACA believing it would only be a temporary job. Dorothy had then been told to go to the segregated West Area Computing Unit. They still had their separate restroom and dining rooms. Her job at NACA was to calculate mathematical equations for engineers conducting aeronautic experiments of