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What Are The Three Colored Women In The 1960's

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During the early 1960s, while equality was in place, but segregation was enforced, three colored women, who worked as NASA employees, stood up to seek out justice and challenge their limits towards the actions of white coworkers, as well as authorities, by pursuing what they believed they were meant for, and what they knew they could accomplish. Many other people of the same race believed that force and violence were the only ways to reach the seemingly impossible goal of becoming free, however these three brilliant women believed that through a lot of hard work and tough skin, they could reach the stars. Their tasks were not easy for them and they endured many hardships along the way, and they were received tough love from many of their coworkers. For example, Katherine Johnson, the first colored woman to become a mathematician in the NASA shuttle coordinates checkers, was forced to have her own coffee pot, run for thirty minutes to a colored ladies restroom because there are none in her office building, as well as kept out of important meetings that discussed vital information about her work, …show more content…

Through Katherine’s influence restrooms became available for all colors, she was able to attend the classified meetings, and even discovered the exact coordinates that sent John Glenn to the moon. Dorothy did not become the leader of the West Computing wing, however, she and her work crew were moved to run the IBM computer system, where she excelled and become manager over it. Mary went to court and convinced the judge to allow her to “be the first” to attend the all white school, so that she could live up to her dream of working as an engineer for NASA. All three women were also acknowledged by John Glenn because he could acknowledge that they were hard working, respectful people, just like others of another

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