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Beginning in 1935, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), a precursor of NASA, hired hundreds of women as computers. The job title described someone who performed mathematical equations and calculations by hand, according to a NASA history. The computers worked at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recruited Jackson in 1951. She started as a research mathematician, or computer, in the segregated West Area Computing Section. Jackson began taking graduate-level physics and mathematics classes at night in order to become an engineer. In 1958, she was promoted to aerospace engineer and became NASA’s first black female engineer. Over the next 20 years, Jackson reached the highest senior-level title within the engineering department. 

As a computer with the all-black West Area Computing section, she was involved with wind tunnels and flight experiments. Her job was to extract the relevant data from  flight tests. She also tried to help other women advance in their career, according to the biography, by advising them on what educational opportunities to pursue. 

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"She discovered that occasionally it was something as simple as a lack of a couple of courses, or perhaps the location of the individual, or perhaps the assignments given them, and of course, the ever present glass ceiling that most women seemed to encounter," Champine wrote.

After 30 years with NACA and NASA (at which point she was an engineer), Jackson decided to become an equal opportunity specialist to help women and minorities. Although described as a behind-the-scenes sort of worker, she helped many people get promoted or become supervisors. She retired from NASA in 1985. Jackson died on Feb. 11, 2005 at the age of 83.

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