MARY JACKSON

Career

After graduation, Jackson taught math at a black school in Calvert County, Maryland, for a year. Public schools were still segregated across the South. She also began tutoring high school and college students, which she continued to do throughout her life.After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had achieved the most senior title within the engineering department.

• Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 9, 1921. She was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer, who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became NASA. She worked at the Langley Research Center most of her life, starting as a calculator in the West Area Calculus division, and later becoming NASA's first black engineer. After 34 years at NASA, Jackson reached the highest possible position for engineers, and realized that he could not climb higher without being a supervisor. At this point she decided to accept a degradation to become director of two programs at the same time: Federal Women's Program in the office of Equal Opportunities, and the Affirmative Action Program. In these positions she worked to influence as much in the hiring as in the promotion of women in NASA, in the field of science, engineering and mathematics.

BIOGRAPHY

• Apollo Group Achievement Award, 1969.• Daniels Alumni Award por un servicio excepcional a jóvenes en desventaja. • Consejo Nacional Publicacionesde Mujeres Negras, Inc. Certificado de Reconocimiento

por Servicio Excepcional a la Comunidad. • Distinguished Service Award por su trabajo con la Campaña Federal Combinada que

representa a las Agencias Humanitarias, 1972.• Premio excepcional del voluntario del Centro de Investigación de Langley, 1975.• Voluntario del Año del Centro de Investigación de Langley, 1976. • Iota Lambda Premio de la Hermandad de la Península Excepcional Mujer Científica,

1976.• Premio excepcional del Centro Comunitario de King Street.• Tribute Award de la Asociación Técnica Nacional, 1976.• Capítulo de Hampton Roads "Libro de Golden Deeds" para el servicio.• Langley Centro de Investigación Certificado de Agradecimiento, 1976-1977.

AWARS AND HONORS

• Czarnecki, K. R.; Jackson, Mary W. (September 1958), , National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K.R. (1960), Investigation by Schlieren Technique of Methods of Fixing Fully Turbulent Flow on Models at Supersonic Speeds, 242, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Czarnecki, K. R.; Jackson, Mary W. (January 1961), NASA Langley Research Center• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K. R. (July 196, NASA Langley Research Center• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, Mary W.; Monta, William J. (1963), Studies of Skin Friction at Supersonic

Speeds (Turbulent Boundary Layer and Skin Friction Data for Supersonic Transports)• Jackson, Mary W.; Czarnecki, K. R.; Monta, William J. (July 1965), Turbulent Skin Friction at High

Reynolds Numbers and Low Supersonic Velocities, National Aeronautics and Space Administration• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, M.W.; Sorrells, R. B. III (December 1, 19, National Aeronautics and Space

Administration• Czarnecki, K.R.; Allen, J. M.; Jackson, M.W. (January 1, 1967),, National Aeronautics and Space

Administration• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, M.W. (November 1, 1970), National Aeronautics and Space Administration• Czarnecki, K.R.; Jackson, Mary W. (December 1975). AIAA Journal. 13 (12): 1585–15

PUBLICATIONS

The 2016 film Hidden Figures recounts the NASA careers of Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy

Vaughan, specifically their work on Project Mercury during the Space Race. The film is based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly.

Jackson is portrayed in the film by Janelle Monáe

LEGACY