Biography:Miriam D. Mann
Miriam D. Mann | |
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| Born | 1907 Covington, Georgia |
| Died | 1967 (aged 59–60) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Talladega College |
Miriam Daniel Mann (1907–1967) was one of the first Black female computers for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).
Biography
Mann was born in 1907, in Covington, Georgia.[1] She attended Talladega College. She was married to Bill Mann,[2] with whom she had three children.[3] In 1943, in the wake of labor shortages caused by World War II, Mann responded to a recruitment drive for Black female mathematicians by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).[3] She subsequently attended a 10-week training course at Hampton Institute and was accepted for a position as a "human computer".[2][4] At the time she was hired the state of Virginia was segregated, as was the NACA campus at Langley Air Force Base , Virginia. Mann repeatedly removed the "COLORED COMPUTERS" sign segregating the cafeteria. The sign was replaced each time until Mann removed it a final time and it was never replaced.[5]
Mann worked for NACA (which became NASA in 1958) until her retirement in 1966.[2] She died in 1967.[1]
In 2017 Mann's granddaughter Duchess Harris co-authored a book with Sue Bradford Edwards entitled Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA.[6] In 2018 the Virginia Capitol Foundation announced that Mann's name would be on the Virginia Women's Monument's glass Wall of Honor.[7]
See also
- West Area Computers
- African-American women in computer science
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Biography of Miriam D. Mann · Human Computers at NASA". https://omeka.macalester.edu/humancomputerproject/items/show/34.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sichynsky, Tanya. "How World War II opened the door for one of the first black women at NASA". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/09/19/how-world-war-ii-opened-the-door-for-one-of-the-first-black-women-at-nasa/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Hidden Figures: How Nasa hired its first black women 'computers'". 18 February 2017. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39003904.
- ↑ Collazo, Julie Schwietert. "NASA's Hidden Figures: The Unsung Women You Need to Know" (in en-us). https://www.biography.com/news/hidden-figures-movie-real-women.
- ↑ Cabral, Carrie (1 June 2020). "Miriam Mann and the Daily Protests That Changed NASA". https://www.shortform.com/blog/miriam-mann-hidden-figures/.
- ↑ "Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA". https://abdobooks.com/shop/show/9454.
- ↑ "Wall of Honor". http://womensmonumentcom.virginia.gov/wallofhonornames.html.
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