The Necessary Calculus of Courage

<p><strong>Before she was a global icon Mary Jackson was a segregated human computer calculating the future while constrained by Jim Crow.</strong></p><p>This definitive biography chronicles the fifty-year journey of NASA's first Black female engineer. Driven by unrelenting moral courage Jackson fought the courts for the right to attend all-white classes securing her historic promotion in 1958.</p><p>Yet her greatest challenge was a profound career pivot: she voluntarily left her prestigious engineering title to work in Human Resources. There she applied her rigorous analytical mind to the internal mission of dismantling institutional bias.</p><p>Jackson's life proves that the efficiency of science demands the equity of opportunity. Approx.174 pages 30500 word count</p>