#rayemontague

[schooloffeminism]

#Herstory #UnDiaComoHoy Raye Jean Montague (21 de enero de 1935 – 10 de octubre de 2018) #ingenieranaval estadounidense creadora del primer borrador de un barco naval estadounidense generado por ordenador. Fue la primera administradora de programas de barcos en la Marina de los Estados Unidos. — Wikipedia 👀 Against the Odds: the Story of Raye Montague youtu.be/1ejoOFulfmQ #RayeMontague #mujeresytecnología #mujeresyciencia #womeninscience #educarenigualdad #educarenfeminismo #schooloffeminism https://www.instagram.com/schooloffeminism/p/CY-ohuTDeaJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[makeda71]

#RayeMontague #blackeducation🎬 #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory✨💫✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/B83kDublclB/?igshid=1bigaqy8ggori

[uvmagazine]

Ms. Montague was one of a number of black women who, starting in the 1930s, performed invaluable, highly technical work for the United States government but who, working behind the scenes, were invisible to the public — and often to their colleagues. In a breakthrough achievement, she also revolutionized the way the Navy designed ships and submarines using a computer program she developed in the early 1970s. It would have normally taken two years to produce a rough design of a ship on paper, but during the heat of the Vietnam War Ms. Montague was given one month to design the specifications for a frigate. She did it in 18 hours and 26 minutes. At the height of her career, she was briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff every month and teaching at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Many of her ship designs are still in use. Although she was decorated by the Navy, Ms. Montague, who retired from the service in 1990, was not acknowledged publicly until 2012, when The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette wrote an in-depth profile of her. She was not recognized nationally until the publication in 2016 of "Hidden Figures". Margot Lee Shetterly’s best-selling account of the black female mathematicians at NASA who facilitated some of the nation’s greatest achievements in space. Raye Montage died of congestive heart failure on Oct. 10 at a hospital in Little Rock, Ark., her son, David R. Montague, said. She was 83. Via: #NewYorkTimes #hiddenfigure #rayemontague #blackhistory #unheardvoicesheroes https://www.instagram.com/p/BpLPcGWhc95/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bdvj2l6o001r

[mhassan1986]

That is amazing. And the end. #rayemontague

[bnaturalyoga-blog]

#rayemontague #womenshistorymonth #blackwomeninhistory

[deraywrites]

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryIsWorldHistory #BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #Repost from @kilololuckett - Raye Montague, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, grew up in the segregated South. She never saw an engineer who looked like her but she would go on to shatter glass ceilings as a female, African-American civilian employee at the then-male-dominated Navy. Montague credited her mother with providing the confidence to know she could achieve anything she wanted. She earned a bachelor of science degree in business at a historically black college, the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal School, which now goes by the name the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The school she wanted to attend, the engineering school at the University of Arkansas, did not accept minorities at the time. "I'm known as the first person to design a ship using the computer," Montague, now 82, said. "And I was the first female program manager of ships in the history of the Navy, which was the equivalent of being a CEO of a company." — From Feb. 20, 2017 interview on "Good Morning America" (Photo by Brian T. Williams published by University of Arkansas Summer 2014) #RayeMontague #USNavyEngineer #AmericanHero #HiddenFigureNoMore 🌟 #regrann (at City of Easton)

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Day 6. Raye Jean Jordan Montague was an African-American internationally registered professional engineer with the U.S. Navy who is credited with the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship. The U.S. Navy’s first female program manager of ships (PMS-309), Information Systems Improvement Program, she held a civilian equivalent rank of captain. Montague’s career spanned the development of computer technologies, from the UNIVAC I, the world’s first commercially available computer, down to modern computers. She successfully revised the first automated system for selecting and printing ship specifications and produced the first draft for the FFG-7 frigate ( the Oliver Hazard Perry–class, or Perry-class, ship) in eighteen hours. This was the first ship designed by computer. Born: January 21, 1935, Little Rock, AR #BlackHistoryMonth #2017 #Day6 #RayeMontague

[blackpinups]

Incredible. #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #hiddenfigure #navy #rayemontague #girlpower #blackgirlmagic #awesome

[noicon]

★Raye Montague Is A Black Woman Who Designed Computerized Ships For Navy

Raye Montague, first female program manager of ships in the history of the #Navy, Hidden Figures has been an inspirational movie in more ways than one. Not only has it taught people especially little girls that there is a place for you in any career path but it has brought out other history making heroes that we never heard about growing up. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan broke barriers but they weren’t the only ones.

#RayeMontague, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, made history in the U.S Navy as the first person to design a ship using the computer and was the first female program manager of ships in the history of the Navy. Montague, now 82, emphasized that this position was “the equivalent of being a CEO of a company.”

Raye Montague Is A Black Woman Who Designed Computerized Ships For NavyRaye Montague Is A Black Woman Who Designed Computerized Ships For Navy-- blackmatterus.coms article-click here

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[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Lots of hidden gems in history, including this pioneering African-American engineer who helped design Navy ships. 

Rest in peace!

[makeda71]

#RayeMontague #blackeducation🎬 #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory✨💫✨ https://www.instagram.com/p/BuLRwPCgL-A/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4uk4cqqeqc4q

[mhassan1986]

She freaking designed a Naval battleship in 18 hours! God damn, #rayemontague

[makeda71]

#RayeMontague made up her mind about her career when she was seven years old. Her grandfather took her to see a one-person submarine captured from the Germans, and when she was looking inside of it, she knew exactly what she was going to do when she grew up. "I always knew I wanted to build ships." And she did. That day with her grandfather was the spark that drove her to do everything she could to become an engineer. Which was already a challenge for pretty much anyone in the 1950s, but it was infinitely more difficult for Raye. Her mother told her she already had three strikes against her -- she was female, she was black, and her educational opportunities were severely limited by segregation -- but that wouldn't be enough to stop her if she was determined. Raye came from a long line of determined people (she was to be the third generation in her family to graduate from college) and it was with their support that she pushed herself to do well in school and find ways to work around the barriers society set for her because of her race and gender. She finished high school with top grades, but couldn't attend the university she wanted to because it didn't admit black students. So she found a way around that barrier and attended the local black college. They didn't offer a degree in engineering, so she worked toward a degree in business, and took every math and science class she could. By the time she graduated she already had her eye on a job in the Navy. "I graduated from AM&N on a Tuesday and went to Washington, DC, on Wednesday to take my resume to the US Navy. Arkansas did not have any computers at the time, and I knew that I wanted to work on one." She started out as a computer systems operator, but kept pushing to advance. When she was told she would need to take night classes in programming, she bought a car, taught herself to drive, and made sure she got to those classes. She knew computers were the key to her career advancement. She also knew the technology was continually changing, and she was determined to keep pace. #BlackEducation #BlackHistory