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Katherine Johnson: Strong African-American Women In The Space Race

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Katherine Johnson was a strong African-American woman who isn’t often talked about. Only within the last two years at the age of 98, does she start getting recognition. A movie was released about her and the women working in the NACA´s branch in 2016. She is the woman who discovered the math that hadn’t yet been created, for launch and landing in the space race. Katherine made these amazing discoveries whilst dealing with constant segregation and oppression for being an African-American Woman. Although the USSR Space Race is taught in history, she isn’t even brought up. However, without her discoveries America wouldn’t have gotten to space for a much longer time and Russia would’ve surely surpassed the U.S in the race.
Katherine Johnson, a
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