Obstacles In Sputnik

Kimberly Bryant is very inspirational to every black girl in America. When she was younger, she wasn’t interested in coding before she made it into a career. She was in the department of biotechnology, which is studying mutations and finding antibiotics. It all started when her daughter Kai was disappointed in her experience at a computing summer camp over the summer. She was disappointed in how there were only a handful of African American girls there, and that the boys got a lot more opportunity than the girls. Bryant started the Black Girls Code in April of 2011.

An example of that would be during a laboratory open house, where a photo of her and the rest of her co-workers was blown up and put on display, with the exception of her face which was purposely cut out of the picture. She was very embarrassed about it but she didn't let it affect her. In an interview with NASA she said “When people have their biases and prejudices, yes, I am aware. My head is not in the sand. But my thing is, if I can't work with you, I will work around you. I was not about to be discouraged that I'd walk away. That may be a solution for some people, but it's not mine”. Another obstacle she faced was her inability to get a good education as others because of her skin colour. Back at her time, there was a lot of discrimination.which resulted in a separation of schools for black and white people. The schools with black kids typically had a worse education. She was also unable to continue her study as a pharmacist because she got married and had to move. Though all of that happened to her It didn't stop her from becoming a great computer programmer, mathematician, and a rocket scientist for NASA who helped make modern spaceflight possible with her calculations. Everything she has done and all the obstacles she has faced are reasons that make her a very notable

In 1953 she came back into the workforce. “Her name… in case you haven’t already guessed it… is Katherine Johnson: mother, wife, career woman”! (Below the feature on Katherine Johnson, another headline inquired: “Why No Negro Astronauts?”) The newspaper recounted the lady mathematician's background and accomplishments with pride, detailing the report that sent Glenn’s rocket cone whizzing through the sky. (P. 225) Chapter

Her ability to consistently attain successful work throughout her life elevated her status in the community. The work that allowed her to achieve standing also served as the catalyst for her initial questioning of her surroundings, and allowed her to fully realize the extent that the system was stacked against black Americans. However; this realization led to an empowerment capable of fighting the forces that worked against her, rather than the fearful subservience of fellow members of the Black community, including her mother and younger sister.

with an essay on white privilege. Her focus was supposed to be around the advantages she felt

The students didn’t even want to march down the aisle with her during graduation, but Bessie did not care because all that mattered was getting a degree. Sadie, who was working as a teacher in the outskirts of Harlem, wanted to acquire a new job, but she knew that her race would hinder that from happening. Sadie remembered what her father had said once, “”you had to be better at what you did than any of your white competition" (5.18.2). She did just as that when she outsmarted the administration at one of the best schools in the city by not meeting face- to-face so that she would not be discriminated because of her skin. She got the job.

At the age of thirteen, Motley was discriminated against for the first time, when she was turned away from a public beach due to her skin color (Constance Baker Motley Biography- Experienced Racism, Philanthropist Paid for College, Set Her Sights on a Law Career). From then, she grew an interest in equality and racism and became the president of the N.A.A.C.P. youth council. She started dreaming big but her family didn’t have the money to fulfill her dreams so started working to fulfill them

In her early years, Shirley Chisholm was separated from her parents and lived in the Barbados. Through this experience, she was able to prove her willpower by being a studious student in school despite the hardship she faced of being away from her parents. This determination benefited her when she came back home to the racist and misogynistic United States at ten years old. Her exceptional grade statuses helped her graduate at the top of her class and earn a scholarship to college so that she could pursue her dream as a school teacher. After she became a teacher, she was content with her position; but after observing lower wages, verbal assaults such as a woman being asked, “Do you type?” when given an interview, and many other discrepancies that blacks and women endured, she became more alert in the brutal society around her and turned to politics.

Surprisingly, she had originally hoped to become an interior designer, but by the time she had finished high school in 1939, her thoughts about everything had changed, and she set her dreams on a career in law. Even though Mrs.Baker was a very amazingly good student, she didn’t quite have the type of money to get her through college to be as successful as she should be. A couple of months after she graduated high school, her job of a domestic worker, maid, didn’t help her with any of her financial problems. Just in matter of time, she agreed to work with the NYA ( National Youth Administration ) with the New Haven branch. One of her speeches at the Dixwell Community House, which is an African American organization , focused on the greater needs for people to be given some type of control the program. With great luck, a very important, wealthy, white contractor and philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, was listening and was very impressed with her intellectual speech. In fact, he was so fascinated that he offered to pay for her college

Starting after World War ll, both America and the Soviet Union had an unfortunate assumption that the other was trying to take over the world and spread their governmental policies, Democracy and Communism. This lead to hate and fear, and the overall goal of destroying those ideals. Both sides thought that their political systems were superior and tried to expand their reach on the world, steering themselves down a road paved with bitter rivalries and childish contests. One such contest, and probably the most famous, being the Space Race. Both sides were reaching out towards the unknown, but Americans believed they were far more ahead than the Russians so when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, “Sputnik-1” On October 4, 1957, they were awed, scared, and offended.The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik created a new era in American society and influenced many pivotal aspects of daily life, including the government, education, culture, and thought process.

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson had a huge impact on society and she inspired many people today. She was an African American mathematician and computer scientist. She had a huge interest in becoming a research mathematician. She was very bright for an African American child. She had to move in order to achieve her dream because she wanted to continue her education. She graduated college very early at the age of 18.

Sputnik I was launched on October 4th, 1957 by Russia, sending panic through Americans. Both the US and USSR were trying to be the first ones into space. So this failure had pushed the US to work harder and led to the creation of NASA.The creation of NASA had lead to the start of the space race. Space race conflicts had lasted over the next 30 years until the Americans had finally claimed the victory in the space race.

Shirley Crisholm’s story takes place in the early 1900’s in America. She had to endure life constantly being categorized and labeled against her true qualities. The society of her time did not see women as they did men, nor was there acknowledgement to the adequacy of any person outside of being born White. During this time, the white male was held at the top of the food chain. White females reigning second, black males third, and black women at the very bottom of the barrel. From birth, she was only seen as a black female and would have to work harder than the average American man, and probably white woman, to be recognized for her merit. Being an African-American woman, Shirley’s chances of success and notoriety were slim to none. However, Shirley Crisholm did not believe in the systematic prejudice that was being thrown at the Black community or towards herself. Shirley knew she was more than just the labels placed beside her name. She wanted to make change in America and open the eyes and minds of everyone around her.

Katherine Goble became the first African-American in the Space Task Group as Al Harrison, the director, needed someone to double check the numbers. However, she had to go a

Katherine Johnson is the main focus in the movie. She gets moved from the West computers where the colored women work to work for Al Harrison who is the director of the space test group in the East Area. Katherine Goble Johnson becomes Harrison’s analytical geometry computer. When she gets there one of the men give her the trash can because he thinks that she is the custodian. Also, Katherine goes to get a cup of coffee and all the men stare at her. The next day there is a coffee pot that says colored. Katherine goes to poor it but the pot is empty. Then Katherine has to use the bathroom and asks her supervisor where’s the bathroom and her supervisor says “I don’t know where your bathroom is.” So she ends up having to run half a mile to the bathroom and back. Further on in the movie Johnson goes to bathroom on a rainy day and when she comes back Al asks her where she goes everyday for 40 minutes. Katherine ends up flipping out explaining that she gets paid poorly,can’t afford pearls,and how she feels because all of them don’t wanna touch the coffee pot just because she’s a colored woman. In the end Katherine goes on to perform calculations for the Apollo II mission to the moon and space shuttle. The movie states that in 2016 there was a building dedicated for her and her work with space travel called Katherine Goble Johnson Computational Building. Also, at the age of ninety seven she was awarded with the Presidential medal of freedom. One of Katherine’s colleges that