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Vaughan was born September 20, 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri, as Dorothy Jean Johnson. [2] She was the daughter of [3] Annie and Leonard Johnson. At the age of seven, her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where she graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925 as her class valedictorian. [4]
The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan , and Mary Jackson , three mathematicians [ 4 ] who worked as computers (then a ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Dorothy Television film 1971–1972 The Partners: Michelle / Denise / Jessica 2 episodes 1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury: Inez Malcolm Episode: "Operation: Rake-Off" 1973 Jarrett: Luluwa Television film 1973 The Magician: Dr. Nora Zabriskie Episode: "The Man Who Lost Himself" 1973 Kojak: Liz Episode: "Dark Sunday" 1974 Emergency! Edna Johnson ...
Dorothy Johnson (actress) (1936–2022), American model and actress Dorothy M. Johnson (1905–1984), American author of Western fiction Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970), American poet and educator
Don Vaughan (ice hockey) (born 1961), Canadian ice-hockey coach and former player; Don Vaughan (landscape architect) (born 1937), American landscape architect; Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008), African American mathematician; Dustin Vaughan (born 1991), American football player
Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known for appearing in Slander House (1930), The Ape (1940) and Lady Gangster (1942).
Alfred J. Vaughan Jr. was born in 1830 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, a son of Alfred Jefferson Vaughan and his wife Dorothy.He entered the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) on July 17, 1848, and graduated 15th in a class of 29 cadets on July 4, 1851.