In Memoriam: Katherine Johnson, 1918-2020

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Hidden Figures: The American dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Sheeterly
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly and Winifred Conkling and illustrated by Laura Freeman
Hidden Figures DVD
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky
Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris
Katherine Johnson, seated at a desk, surrounded by papers. A poster of the moon is on the wall behind her.

Dr. Katherine Johnson, part of the human computer team at NASA and responsible for hand calculating NASA's path to space, has died at 101. She graduated from West Virginia State College with degrees in math and French and briefly worked as a teacher before working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which would later become NASA) at Langley Research Center. In 2015, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

To read about her influence at NASA and the team of black female mathematicians that helped the United States launch successfully into space, we've got Hidden Figures in three formats: book, DVD, and children's book. 

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