#THE HIDDEN MOVIE LITTLE GIRL HOW TO#
So she bought a 1949 Pontiac, taught herself how to drive, and worked nights until she got the promotion. But there was no public transportation at night, and Montague couldn't drive. Her boss grudgingly agreed to give her a promotion to work on engineering projects - if she worked the night shift. At first, as she later recounted, Montague wasn't allowed to use the computer "because 'we' weren't supposed to touch that computer right? And because I was from Arkansas." One day when the engineers were all out sick, however, she proved that she was up for the challenge by running the machine by herself. Montague's job with the Navy seated her next to the department's UNIVAC I computer, where she learned how it worked by watching the male Ivy League graduates running the computer. She continued to pursue her dream of becoming an engineer by taking night classes in computer programming and engineering. Instead, she completed a degree in business and moved to Washington D.C. "He said, 'Oh, you’d have to be an engineer, but you don’t have to worry about that.'" For a while, it seemed that he was right: when she graduated high school, she wasn't permitted to study engineering at the University of Arkansas because the engineering program didn't admit black students. And I said to the guy, 'What do you have to know to do this?'" she recalled later. "I looked through the periscope and saw all these dials and mechanisms. Montague was born on Januin Arkansas, and the gifted girl, who excelled at math and science, set her sights on her future career early: when her grandfather took the 7-year-old Montague to see a captured German submarine during WWII, she was fascinated by how it worked. But you can be or do anything you want, provided you’re educated." "You’re female, you’re black and you’ll have a Southern segregated school education. "You’ll have three strikes against you," she remembered her saying.
Montague, who died in late 2018 and whose story has been told in a new picture book, The Girl With A Mind For Math, always credited her mother's insistence on education for giving her the push she needed to reach for her dreams. While Montague was the first person to ever design a ship on a computer, her contributions were little known until Margot Lee Shetterly's book Hidden Figures, which told the story of African American female mathematicians at NASA, generated a new interest in other little-known women who made remarkable contributions with their technical prowess. Navy's first female program manager of ships. Raye Montague, the groundbreaking engineer and ship designer, smashed both gender and racial barriers to revolutionize Naval ship design and become the U.S. This trailblazing engineer became the first person in history to design a Naval ship using a computer.
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