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NASA Names DC Headquarters After Mary Jackson, Its First Black Female Engineer
Mary W Jackson became the first African American female engineer to work at NASA in 1958.
Mary W Jackson became the first African American female engineer to work at NASA in 1958.
It was the year 1956 in Washington DC when a woman, Raye Montague, was getting ready to make history in the US Navy. An African-American woman from Arkansas, Montague knew the circumstances that she was born in. An America, that still struggled with racism and sexism, would not let this Southern Black woman’s dreams soar high. […]
