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KATHERINE

jOHNSON

INFOGRAPHIC

Born in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia on August 26, 1918. As an African American woman, she and her family faced segregation and Jim Crow laws; public education for African American children ran through the eighth grade.

President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civil decoration an American can receive in 2015.

"I like learning. That is an art and a science"

Katherine Johnson

timeline

TIMELINE

Johnson retires from NASA and became an advocate for math instruction in public schools

Johnson helped calculate aerodynamic forces in airplanes

1952

1961

1939

1986

She was selected by West Virginia State President Dr. John W. Davis to be one of the first black students to be offered a place at West Virginia University

Helped calculate the launch window for the Mercury mission

By Garista Calero María de los Angéles Pérez Díaz Martha Angélica/ 6°Semester EV Teacher: Laura Martínez Pedraza Made in Genially