ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 pertains to the study of education success for black Americans. It includes the works of Hughes and Hertel in reference to Historically Black Colleges and Universities as well as Herrnstein and Murray. Herrnstein and Murray contend that based upon IQ scores blacks are less intelligent than whites. The works of Peggy MacIntosh in a follow up offers White Privilege as a factor in the white versus black experience. Of most note to refute The Bell Curve is a chronology of three black female mathematicians. Their names are Dorothy Vaughn, Katherine Johnson and Mary Jackson. The law did not allow them to attend white graduate schools based upon race. They then sat outside the classroom to learn or be granted special permission. They overcame such racism to succeed eventually working for NASA where they still faced discrimination. John Glenn was said to have refused his moon landing until such women approved the numbers.
