Essays on Katherine Johnson

For many years tons of people have made a huge difference in this world and they have not gained the recognition they deserve. If you think about it everyone gets their knowledge from something or someone. Everything we discover has already been discovered by our...

Katherine Johnson is known as one out of three African Americans; to work in the (NASA) field , that was hugely overlooked by only white men. Her courage and steadiness , played a huge role being one of the few African Americans to join the...

As Katherine Johnson worked to make her unequivocal contributions to America, she also had to be extremely strong in order to battle discrimination and disrespect because she was an African American.  She beat these odds and still earned her place on NASA’s team at a...

Katherine Johnson was an African-American mathematician from 1953 to 1986 working for NASA. She was a machine which was human. Johnson was a trailblazer at a time when minorities had very few positions in mathematics and science. Her work in determining the routes to fly...

Early in 2017, a new blockbuster movie hit theaters nationwide. Out-grossing high production films such as “Star Trek Beyond,” “X-Men Apocalypse,” and “La La Land,” the movie “Hidden Figures” follows the brilliant minds of three African American women working in NASA. One of these women...

Mary Jackson is one of the African American human computers who worked at NASA. She was on a journey of becoming an engineer at NASA to which she was offered the position. However, she needed to enter a training program at a ‘whites only’ school....