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Dorothy Vaughan leads a computing unit, then moves into programming
Vaughan became West Area Computing’s section head—the first Black supervisor at NACA, according to NASA.
NASA · Dorothy Vaughan ↗NASA also records that she sought but did not receive another management position. Integration of the unit did not guarantee advancement; this is Langley’s history, not every NASA center’s.
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