Civil rights issues stand at the core of Anne Moody’s memoir. However, because my last two journal entries centered on race and the movement, I have decided to shift my focus. In her adolescent years, Anne Moody must live with her mother, her mother’s partner Raymond, and her increasing number of siblings. As she reaches maturity, she grows to be a beautiful girl with a developed body. Her male peers and town members notice, as does her step father Raymond.
Mary Winston Jackson was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She became the first black engineer to work for NASA. For nearly two decades she enjoyed a productive engineering career, authoring, or co-authoring a dozen or so research reports, most focused on the behavior of the boundary layer of air around airplanes. She served as the chair of one of the center’s annual United Way campaigns, was a Girl Scout troop leader for more than three decades, and a member of the National Technical Association (the oldest African American technical organization in the United States).
Born into slavery, she is known as the first black woman in the United States to graduate from an four-year college. Mary Jane Patterson taught at the Institute for Colored Youths in Philadelphia, and took
Originally, the unit’s first leaders were white. Later, Dorothea was promoted to “NACA's first black supervisor” (Dorothy Vaughan Biography). She stayed at the head of the West Area Computing unit for 10 years until it was abolished along with segregation within the departments when NACA became NASA. Her work as a trailblazer in the fight against black stereotypes within the workplace at the time were truly the first step in letting her legacy live on within the careers of people such as Mary Jackson and Katherine
On July 10th 1985 an alluring African-American woman by the name of Mary Jane McLeod was born . She was born in Mayesville South Carolina. Although she was the 15th out of 17 children her parents loved her very much. Her parent was formally slaves. All throughout her childhood she would help her mother at work.
Mary Jackson later became famous for being an African American mathematician and an aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. However, the NACA later became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Mary Jackson went to college at Hampton Institute, but it is now called Hampton University. At Hampton Institute she earned her Bachelor's degrees in mathematics and political science. She graduated in 1942 from Hampton Institute.
Black Female African Americans neglected to the point that they and their achievements have been forgotten. There was a study the suggested that the sources for news in the 1940s and 1950s that contributed to the loss of at least
As a result, Moody got the opportunity to understand that not all white people see blacks as an inferior race. The other woman who played an important role was Mrs. Rice. Mrs. Rice was one of Moody’s teachers in high school who introduced her to the idea of African-American movement and the
Mary Jackson was born April 9, 1921 in Hampton Virginia. After graduating with highest honors from high school, Mary went to the Hampton Institute. While there, Mary earned her Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Physical Science. After her graduation, Mary accepted a job as a math teacher at a black school in Calvert County, Maryland. Jackson accepted three more jobs prior to landing a job at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory’s segregated West Area Computing section in 1951.
Jemison recalls telling her teachers about her desire to work in the science field- however her teacher replied that she should pursue a nursing career instead. Along with bias against women, African Americans also were facing challenges in the field of STEM. Classmates and teachers would disregard talent shown, focusing instead on their white peers. Throughout all these struggles and obstacles Jemison struggled through, she stayed strong and continued to follow her passion in STEM and working as an astronaut with NASA.
In my research paper I will be talking about Marie Sophie Germain, a famous mathematician born and raised in Paris, France. I chose Sophie Germain because I believe that female historical figures deserve the equal amount of recognition that males receive. She also caught my attention because she had no support at all, and because of that would receive education secretly. I believe that Germain has taught us that even though we will encounter obstacles on our path, with determination and perseverance all things are possible. Although it can be something negative, one always hopes that a person is determined to work and provide in a positive aspect and not a negative one.
The ones seen as most unqualified in a time of deep segregation against African Americans and women were the ones who were the most qualified to solve the math used in the movie; they were just as qualified as any white male was to solve those equations. Overall, the math in the movie represented actual math faced at the time and symbolized the actual fight for segregation that occurred at the time and still occurs today. The Figures in Hidden Figures
In the film, the three African American females was not portrayed as someone who would be working at NASA because they were women. For instance, Katherine’s
Hidden Figures is an inordinate movie that gives us the lesson that everybody has the potential to do great things if they work hard towards those things. In this movie, an exceptional girl named Katherine is given the chance to go to an extraordinary school so that she can get the education that she needs to fulfill her dream and become an engineer at NASA. The movie showcases the struggles, hard-work, and discrimination that she has to go through while working at NASA. Although some examples of racism are more easily noticeable than others in the movie, all of them show that many Americans did not particularly approve of African-Americans in the mid-1900s.
Black women are treated less than because of their ascribed traits, their gender and race, and are often dehumanized and belittled throughout the movie. They are treated like slaves and are seen as easily disposable. There are several moments throughout the film that show the racial, gender, and class inequalities. These moments also show exploitation and opportunity hoarding. The Help also explains historical context of the inequality that occurred during that time period.
