electronic computer training, 141
Engineering, Science, and War Management Training programs, 46, 142, 283
Engineering for Women, 16, 39, 95
“Hampton Idea,” 95
John Glenn hero’s welcome, 225
Marian Anderson performances, 68
Mary Peake “founding,” 16
Phenix High School, 94, 95, 142, 186
Rosa Parks as hostess, 202
Stability Analysis gatherings, 88
war effort participation, 45–46
Hampton Roads (VA)
anti-Semitism, 102
East End segregation, 29–30, 61–62
John Glenn hero’s welcome, 224–225
racial tensions, 31, 47–48
V-J Day, 64–65
war towns, 27–29, 64, 79–80
Hannah, Margery (East & West Computing) authoring study with Katzoff, xvii, 88
Katherine Johnson on, 250
outer planet tour, 246, 314
West Area women as equals, 47
West Computing section head, xvii, 40, 49, 58, 81, 87, 250
wind tunnel air flows, 110
Harris, Ruth Bates, xiii
Head Girls, 91–92
Height, Dorothy, 228, 312
Hill, Oliver, 140
Hillside Inn (PA), 237–238, 313
Hinson, Shirley Hunt (math aide), 210
Holt, Harry, 38
Hoover, Dorothy (mathematician; scientist) aeronautical research scientist, 112, 218
GS-13 achieved, 255
West Computer supervisor, 81
working for Robert T. Jones, xvii, 87–88, 112
House, Rufus, 90, 92
Housing Rights Act (1968), 241
Houston, Alice Jackson, 24
Houston, Charles Hamilton
Du Bois as guide, 229
graduate school admission policies, 24
military service, 32
teacher salaries, 70, 74–75
Howard University
female engineering graduates, 144
inaugural master’s in math, 13, 23, 24, 73, 74
Hughes, Howard, 53
Hughes, Langston, 251
Human Computer Project, 267, 268
Hunter, Lessie (West Computer), 40, 264
Huntington, Collis, 38
Huss, Carl, 122, 164, 176, 177, 189, 190, 210
IBM computers
604 and 650 for trajectories, 138
704 FORTRAN, 205–206
709 in Bermuda, 206
7090s at Goddard, 206, 215, 218, 221–222
CO3E software program, 207
Katherine Johnson versus, 220, 223
“Indian” use in book, ix, 45
integration. See desegregation International Geophysical Year (1957–1958), 162, 175
international view of discrimination, 103–104, 150, 170
Introduction to Celestial Mechanics (Moulton; 1914), 176, 191
Introduction to Outer Space (President’s Advisory Committee on Science; 1958), 175, 305
J. S. Darling and Son, 38, 93
Jackson, Levi, Sr., 260
Jackson, Mahalia, 228, 229
Jackson, Mary Winston (West Computer; engineer) Apollo capsule testing, 219
Apollo Team Achievement Award, 219
background, 94–98, 112–113, 186
Becker reusable launch vehicle, 163–164
black engineer recruitment, 230, 254
defending her numbers, xvii, 114–115
East Computing assignment, 108–110
electronic computer programming, 254
engineer barrier breaking, 196–199, 200, 219, 255–257
engineering training, 143–145
epilogue, 251, 253–257
Federal Women’s Program Manager, 256–257
Girl Scout leader, 95, 97–98, 108, 109, 198, 256
Gloria Champine and, 257, 258–261
Hampton return, 93–94
Kazimierz Czarnecki hiring, 109–110, 142–143, 254–255
security clearance, 98
son’s soap box derby, 193–195, 199–200
Volunteer of the Year, 254
West Computing, 99, 101, 105, 107–108
Jackson, Wanda, 260
Jacobs, Eastman, 53, 82, 88, 101
Johns, Altona Trent, 20, 33–34
Johns, Barbara, 140–141
Johns, Vernon, 33–34, 140
Johnson, James A., 186–187, 188, 192
Johnson, Janice, 198
Johnson, Katherine Coleman Goble (West Computer; scientist) Alpha Kappa Alpha conclave, 236–239
“America Is for Everybody” brochure, 227, 228
Apollo 13 crisis, 248–249
awards, 172, 249–250, 314
Azimuth Angle report, 191–192, 211, 220
background, 23–24, 70–72
celebrity, 225, 232, 249–250
Christine Darden welcomed, 231–232
colored bathrooms, 129
on Dorothy Vaughan, 173, 250
epilogue, 249–251
Eunice Smith friendship, 120, 186, 232
Flight Research Division, 122–124, 125–131
graduate studies and desegregation, 25, 75–76
homeowner, 132–133, 185–186
Jimmy Goble’s death, 133–134, 135–136, 186
John Glenn’s trajectory, xvii, 211, 216–217, 219–223, 225
on Margery Hannah, 250
marriage to Jim Johnson, 186, 192
marriage to Jimmy Goble, 74, 76
Mars shot, 246
mentor Claytor, 24, 73, 74
Moon shot, 234, 239, 244–246, 248, 249
NASA to Houston, 210
Piper vs. jet wake, 128
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 172, 250
spaceflight, 164–165, 176, 177–179
spaceflight editorial meetings, 179, 181–182
spaceflight trajectories, 190–191
Sputnik, 161, 162, 164
as teacher, 23–24, 69–70, 74, 119, 120
as Trekkie, 243–244
West Computer, 120–122, 172
Johnson, Kemble, 104–105
Johnson, Leonard “Kansas City,” 12, 276
Johnson, Lyndon, 162, 210, 227, 252
Johnson, Susie Peeler, 12
Jones, Robert “R. T.”
anti-prejudice jail time, 47, 82
Doris Cohen partner, 85, 88, 290
Dorothy Hoover employment, xvii, 87–88, 112
Langley to Ames lab, 112
as researcher, 53, 82–83, 84
Joyner, Kitty O’Brien (engineer), 144
Kantrowitz, Arthur, 47, 54, 88
Katzoff, Sam, xvii, 88, 110
Keating, Jean Clark (scientist), 179–180
Kennedy, John F., 207–208, 209, 227
Kennedy, Joseph and Rose, 71
Kennedy, Robert, 204
Kent, Elijah, xiii
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
bus boycott, 168, 202
March on Washington, 6, 228, 229
Poor People’s Campaign, 240
Trekkie, 243
Knox, Frank, 41–42
Korean War, 99, 104
Kraft, Chris, 164, 208
laminar flow airfoils, 55, 111
Land, Bonnie Kathaleen (mathematician), xi, xii, xv, 269
Landrum, Emma Jean (engineer), 197–198
Langley, Samuel, 55
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory accomplishments, 111
aircraft manufacturers and, 3–4, 111
airfield relationship, 2–3, 37–38
anti-Semitism, 102
black women computer numbers, xviii
bombing of Japan, 59
description of, xii, 37, 38–39, 99
engineering training by, 54–55, 141
high-speed to spaceflight, 163–164
integration progress, 167–168, 169–170
land for, 38, 225
Langley Research Center from, 171, 183
NACA and, 2, 209–210. See also National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics research review process, 178, 305
Rosenberg trial repercussions, 101–102, 110
secrecy at, 52–53
secretary of navy visit, 41–42
staffing explosion, 1–2, 99
townsfolk reactions to, 38, 53
V-J Day, 64–65, 80
West Area, 7. See also West Area of Langley See also wind tunnels Langley Research Center aeronautics again, 253
black engineer recruitment, 230
Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory into, 171, 183
NASA open house on first anniversary, 184
Space Task Group, 183–184, 209. See also Space Task Group tracking stations, 206–207
language used in book, ix
laundry workers, 9–10, 11, 17
Lee, Dorothy (computer; scientist), 180, 188
Lee, Robert Benjamin, III, xi, xii, xiii–xiv, 260
Lewis, John, 228
Lindbergh, Charles, 53
Little Rock (AR), 150
Loeb, Charles H., 152
“Lost Generation,” 204
Lovell, Jim, 248–249
Lovely, Hester (West Computer), 171, 204
Loy, Myrna, 53
Luce, Henry, 71, 299
Lucy, Autherine, 152
Lucy, Frederick and Annie, 29, 44
MacLean, Malcolm, 45–47, 203, 283
Malvestuto, Frank, 112
Maneuver Loads Branch, 126, 127
Mann, Christine
background, 153–157
Hampton Institute, 157–159
Sputnik launches, 149–151, 153, 158
Mann, Isabelle (West Computer), 171, 204
Mann, Miriam (West Computer)
Colored Computers cafeteria sign, 44–45, 48
daughter’s wedding penny, 167
engineering group position, 165
Hampton Institute, 16, 45
rendezvous research, 219
secretary of navy visit, 42
West Computing friendships, 49, 67–68, 78
West Computing section, 39, 219
Mann, Noah and Desma, 154–155, 158
Manned Spacecraft Center (TX), 210
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), 228–229
Marshall, Thurgood
Brown v. Board of Education, 140–141