Hidden Figures is a book and a movie based on three African-American women, including Dorothy Vaughan, achieving great things despite the discrimination and struggle they went through.
Dorothy Vaughan was depicted as the actress, Octavia Spencer, in Hidden Figures.
Vaughan was merely 19 when she graduated from university.
Vaughan worked along side with Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson.
Vaughan was assigned to work in the West Area Computers (NACA). The segregation was caused by the Jim Crow Laws.
Before she worked for NACA, Vaughan taught mathematics at R.R. Moton High School.
Vaughan goes on to have four children with her husband, Howard.
One of Vaughan's children eventually went to work for NASA as well.