Mary Jackson Quit Engineering To Work On Equal Rights. After 30 years as an engineer, Jackson was frustrated by her inability to break the glass ceiling.

NASA’s headquarters building in downtown D.C. now has a new name, honoring the late Mary W. Jackson, the first African-American female engineer at the agency.

Such details encourage the viewer to study the work slowly, the way you might scrutinise a particular patch of a Jackson Pollock painting. The piece was made by Mary Jackson, an African-American ...

A pathfinder in engineering. Jackson, who died in 2005, was an influential figure at NASA, working on some of the agency’s biggest challenges, including the Apollo moon landing.

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with Congressional Gold Medals, the highest award given to citizens by Congress.