[Hidden Figures] # Chapter 2: Mobilization

 
 
 

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[Summarize this chapter]

 대부분 흑인 여성들은 군인 옷빨래일, 선생님은 최상위계층 in negro society,,dorothy는 선생님 을 extra money 비는걸로함. But 돈은 많이 못벌어서 세탁일이 main
Chapter 제목이 mobilization 인것은 계급이동을 뜻하는군.

Sorothy stepmother는 그녀의 성공을위해 많은 것을가르침, 그녀는. 우수성 보임 도로씨는 regno 사회의 -
그녀전공 mathj 저명한 흑인 학자들은 흑인학교에서만 가르칠 수 있어서 학생들은개이득 but 대공황으로 대학원가는 거 포기하고 education 전공해서 →선생님으로?. 전향 가족들을위해서.
But 그것마저 잘림. 호텔에서 일하다가 남편만남 1
처음에 naca는 백인여성뽑음. 그런데 곧바로 langley에서 흑인여성 지원자 모집함. Executive order 8802 " porothy도 지원. 엄청난새 역사 in negrocommunig

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횡재한 것 같다.
..it felt like a windfall.

She fared no better in her next posting in coastal North Carolina,

 

 

(p. 9) obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war
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(p. 9) Others heaved the sopping clothes into the dryers.
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(p. 9) a giant griddle.
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(p. 9) hum
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(p. 9) We gave him a real nice send-off, whole neighborhood turned out. Just as well you can’t get stockings nowhere, hot as it is. That Mr. Randolph sure is something, and friends with Mrs. Roosevelt too!
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(p. 10) They brooded over the husbands and brothers and fathers heading into the conflict that was so far away from the daily urgencies of their lives in Virginia, yet so close to their prayers and their dreams.
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(p. 10) had left behind jobs as domestic servants
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(p. 10) The laundry was a humid inferno, the work as monotonous as it was uncomfortable.
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(p. 10) to tend to their dirty clothing,
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(p. 10) lower rates of absenteeism.
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(p. 10) it felt like a windfall.
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(p. 10) Only a week had elapsed between
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(p. 10) As a college graduate and a teacher, she stood near the top of what most Negro women could hope to achieve.
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(p. 10) Her in-laws were mainstays of the town’s Negro elite.
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(p. 10) regular fodder
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(p. 10) Dorothy jumped at the chance to head to Camp Pickett
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(p. 10) Though teaching offered prestige, the compensation was modest.
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(p. 11) their black counterparts
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(p. 11) barely qualified as buildings.
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(p. 11) for pupils.
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(p. 11) They reached into their own threadbare purses when the schoolroom kitty fell short.
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(p. 11) And Dorothy was of an unusually independent mind, impatient with the pretensions that sometimes accompanied the upwardly mobile members of the race.
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(p. 11) There was something in her bearing that transcended her soft voice and diminutive stature.
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(p. 11) Education topped her list of ideals; it was the surest hedge against a world that would require more of her children than white children, and attempt to give them less in return.
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(p. 11) The Negro’s ladder to the American dream was missing rungs, with even the most outwardly successful blacks worried that at any moment the forces of discrimination could lay waste to their economic security.
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(p. 12) Their lives and futures informed every decision she made.
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(p. 12) as a charwoman
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(p. 12) She took Dorothy as her own daughter and pushed her to succeed, teaching the precocious girl to read before she entered school, which vaulted her ahead two grades.
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(p. 12) Negro restaurateur.
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(p. 12) Dorothy reaped the reward for her hard work in the form of the valedictorian’s spot and a full-tuition scholarship
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(p. 12) The African Methodist Episcopal Sunday School Convention of West Virginia, which underwrote the scholarship, celebrated fifteen-year-old Dorothy in an eight-page pamphlet that it published and distributed to church members, lauding her intelligence, her work ethic, her naturally kind disposition, and her humility.
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(p. 12) “This is the dawn of a life, a promise held forth. We who have been fortunate enough to guide that genius and help mold it, even for a little while, will look on with interest during the coming years,”
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(p. 12) Dorothy was the kind of young person who filled the Negro race with hope that its future in America would be more propitious than its past.
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(p. 13) earned “splendid grades”
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(p. 13) in what would be the inaugural class
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(p. 13) The white schools’ prejudice was the black schools’ windfall:
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(p. 13) bringing students like Dorothy into close contact with some of the finest minds in the world.
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(p. 13) Howard University represented a singular opportunity for Dorothy, in line with the AME scholarship committee’s lofty expectations.
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(p. 13) Possessed of an inner confidence that attributed no shortcoming either to her race or to her gender, Dorothy welcomed the chance to prove herself in a competitive academic arena.
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(p. 13) an irresponsible extravagance.
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(p. 13) With the onset of the Great Depression, Dorothy’s parents, like a third of all Americans, found steady work hard to come by.
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(p. 13) An extra income would help keep the household above water and improve the odds that Dorothy’s sister might be able to follow her path to college.
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(p. 13) Through an extensive grapevine, black colleges received calls from schools around the country requesting teachers,
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(p. 14) but would be expected to assume whatever duties were necessary.
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(p. 14) The Depression-fueled collapse in cotton prices hit the area hard, and the school system simply shut its doors,
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(p. 14) She fared no better in her next posting in coastal North Carolina,
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(p. 14) when she got word of a job at the school in Farmville.
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(p. 14) quick with a smile,
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(p. 14) itinerant bellman
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(p. 14) her husband’s work kept him on the road,
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(p. 15) As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike.
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(p. 15) Dorothy spied the notice for the laundry job at Camp Pickett.
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(p. 15) also caught her eye:
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(p. 15) having to do with
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(p. 15) was most certainly meant for the eyes of the white, well-to-do students at the all-female State Teachers College there in Farmville.
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(p. 15) building perched
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(p. 15) Black newspapers, however, worked relentlessly to spread the word far and wide about available war jobs and exhorted their readers to apply.
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(p. 15) Some were dubbing Executive Order 8802 and the Fair Employment Practices Committee “the most significant move on the part of the Government since the Emancipation Proclamation.”
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(p. 16) an article that would call to Dorothy like a signpost for the road not taken.
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(p. 16) “Paving the Way for Women Engineers,”
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(p. 16) the focal point of the black community’s participation in the conflict.
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(p. 16) The women had come from points up and down the East Coast,
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(p. 17) where the need for labor was so great, so undifferentiated, that there was virtually no possibility that they would not hire her.
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