"Breaking Barriers
Dorothy Vaughan and her husband saw each other on holidays and occasional weekends. They added two more children to their family, and for the younger ones, Newsome Park was the only home they knew. Dorothy loved staying home to take care of the new babies, but there was never a question that she would return to work as soon as possible after the children were old enough to stay with a babysitter. Dorothy’s job at Langley provided the economic stability for the family.
While Dorothy and her children missed their family back in Farmville, friends from the West Computing office filled the void left by aunts and uncles and cousins. The group from West Computing began a summertime tradition of organizing a picnic at Log Cabin Beach—a segregated beach built exclusively for black people. At Log Cabin, black families were able to enjoy being outside without “Colored” signs to remind them of their place.
Dorothy earned a good salary —$2,400 a year, twice the average monthly wage for black women in the 1940s. When the laboratory operated on a twenty- four-hour schedule during the war, Dorothy had worked the 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. shift, taking care of her family by day and crunching numbers at night. " (Chapter 9, Hidden Figures)
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