Black woman who had trailblazing Navy career dies at 83
(World News Science)

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Raye Montague, a trailblazing black woman from Arkansas who revolutionized the way the U.S. Navy designed ships, has died. She was 83. Montague developed a computer program that created rough drafts of ship specifications. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2012 that the program allowed the Navy to cut the time it took to build a ship`s draft design from two years to 18 hours and 26 minutes. She fought discrimination throughout her career. When a co-worker wouldn`t show her how to operate a computer, she taught herself. She said: `I had to run circles around people, but when they found out I really knew what I was talking about, they came to respect me. ......