Katherine Johnson, a small town girl from White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. From a young age Johnson had always been interested in numbers. To the point where she had been counting everything she did. However, being African-American there were multiple barriers in her way of her obsession with numbers. With most African-Americans stopping school at eighth grade. Her family however wanted to give her that opportunity of more schooling. Her father, Joshua had drove their family 120 miles to Substitute, West Virginia. Where she continued her schooling. Katherine had skipped through grades to graduate from High School at 14, and later from college at just 18. After her years of school were over, she became a teacher and stay-at-home mom. After,