She registered to take an exam, passed it, and became one of the first black women to work as a "human computer" at the NACA aeronautics research facility at Langley in Virginia. These were the ...

Meet Katherine Johnson, the African-American woman who earned the nickname “the human computer ... and those of her black female colleagues, all of whom did important work against unbelievable ...

Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson and their work at the National Aeronautics ... middle-grade readers is “Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA” (Abdo Publishing, $25).

automation through computers was changing the world of clerical work. And there is an interesting alliance struck between an initially excluded technology and excluded black women. Vaughan is the ...

To her children, Charlene Roberts-Hayden was like a character out of the book and movie “Hidden Figures” — just born a generation later, and working as a pioneering Black woman in computer ...

She registered to take an exam, passed it, and became one of the first black women to work as a "human computer" at the NACA aeronautics research facility at Langley in Virginia. These were the ...