10 points Part B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A
"Each of these three women played a unique role in promoting the equality of African
American women in the workplace." (Paragraph 18)
"In 1962, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, specifically requested that
Johnson do all the calculations for his famous orbital mission." (Paragraph 7).
"few Americans had ever heard of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary
Jackson, or any of the women who worked as 'computers' behind the scenes of the
space race in the 1960s." (Paragraph 1)
"By 1979, Jackson had reached the highest level of the engineering department, but
she grew frustrated that she was not promoted beyond that to a managerial position."
(Paragraph 17)