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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. Raye Montague, 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.” "I faced a lot of the same barriers that those ladies faced," Montague told Robin Roberts on " Good Morning America ," stressing the fact that she grew up in a segregated South and never saw an engineer that looked like her. She wears the title proud that she shattered that glass ceiling as a black woman in the then...