Mary Jackson
... that Mary Jackson became the first black female engineer at NASA after successfully petitioning the City of Hampton, Virginia, to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a whites-only school?
... that <b id="mwCIo"><a href="./Mary_Jackson_(engineer)" id="mwCIs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mary Jackson (engineer)">Mary Jackson</a></b> <i id="mwCIw">(pictured)</i> became the first black female engineer at <a href="./NASA" id="mwCI0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NASA">NASA</a> after successfully petitioning the City of <a href="./Hampton,_Virginia" id="mwCI4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hampton, Virginia">Hampton, Virginia</a>, to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a <a href="./Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" id="mwCI8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Racial segregation in the United States">whites-only</a> school?