Dorothy Vaughan By Valeria AdamsPortillo Dorothy Vaughan at

Dorothy Vaughan By: Valeria Adams-Portillo

Dorothy Vaughan, at the time she was born there was segregation but she got through it all by being one of the first African-American female computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U. S. space program and was the first African-American female manager for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ( N. A. C. A. ) which then became National and Space Administration ( N. A. S. A. ) Intro

Leonard and Anne Johnson gave birth to Dorothy Vaughan on September, 20 1910. Vaughan was born in Kansas City Missouri. At the time, there was a lot of segregation so at work the females of color had to work separately and the women were also not allowed to attend at meetings. However before she did anything really great she married Howard S. Vaughan Jr. in 1932 and had 6 children named Leonard S. Vaughan, Ann V. Hammond, Kenneth H. Vaughan, Maida Kathryn. Cobbins, Michael Vaughan, and Donald Vaughan. Dorothy Vaughan died on November 10, 2008 from natural causes at the age of 98 in one of her hometown’s, Hampton Virginia. Childhood

Education Dorothy Vaughan went to then graduated from Beechhurst High school in 1925 with a full college scholarship. She then went to Howard university then got into Wilberforce university in Ohio and graduated in 1929 and received a bachelors degree in science from Wilberforce university. She was a teacher for a while then became the manager of N. A. She was also a great mathematician.

Accomplishments Dorothy Vaughan learned how to program the computers and make important contributions to the early years of the U. S. space program. If she would mess up her calculations in math so that she can help send astronauts go to space, they would die so she was really important in N. A. She also performed complex contributions and analyze data for Aerospace engineers. Although she had a husband six kids she was still able to do all of that!

My Opinion Dorothy Vaughan was important because without her N. A. S. A. Wouldn’t be able to get all the math calculations to do things until somebody as smart as her was able to do Dorothy’s math. Also in my opinion she was a strong woman who did great things for the world, as well as many other African. American females. Vaughan was also a very bright and intelligent woman who should’ve got treated with the same respect as everybody else.

The End By: Valeria Adams-Portillo