Katherine Johnson was a woman changemaker who changed the perspectives of people toward black women during a time of segregation in America. She had to go through many hardships but in the end, all the hard work paid off to what she has become today. This biography will be about how I think Katherine Johnson was a woman changemaker and how she changed the world. Please enjoy this biography about Katherine Johnson.
Her race has affected how she was looked upon many times in her life. Katherine Johnson was a black woman who in her teens, became one of the first to desegregate the schools in West Virginia by being one of the first black people to attend to West Virginia’s flagship school. But being one of the first blacks to attend to a mainly white flagship school made it so that the aurora of the school towards her was unwelcome and negative. She was bullied a lot of times and didn't progress much until she switched to another school. Another time how
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Another of her amazing feats were that she was trusted by an astronaut John Glenn{the first man to orbit the earth and come back alive) to redo the calculations that the early computers ran through and he insisted that she should recheck them because of her skill in math. In this moment, it didn't matter if Katherine Johnson was a black woman who whites couldn't trust but it mattered about her skill and level to get the job done. One of John Glenn’s quotes that support his opinion on trusting Katherine is “If she says they're good, then I'm ready to go.”(the she in the quote refers to Katherine Johnson). Other accomplishments Katherine Johnson are being the first woman to receive credit for a research paper, help on the Apollo mission and being the first woman to attend to meetings in NASA even though the leaders told her that she shouldn't go and it was for