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Mary Jackson working at NASA Langley at a control panel in 1980. Mary W. Jackson successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become NASA’s first black female engineer in 1958 and a leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations.

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Mary Jackson working at NASA Langley at a control panel in 1980. Mary W. Jackson successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become NASA’s first black female engineer in 1958 and a leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations.
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Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:52:18 JST Project Gutenberg

American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died #OTD in 2005.
She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer engineer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)
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