Katherine Johnson, born in 1918, loved maths and excelled at a young age. Her town did not have a high school for Black children, but despite racial segregation laws, she persevered and even ...

LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Katherine ... Johnson became a school teacher in Marion, Virginia. After having her three daughters, a ...

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic ... part of the West Virginia State College, a historically black college, and so she did her college there, taking ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut ... When I think of Virginia and the history of what we’ve gone through ... you’re at the top of that list,” said, Terry McAuliffe ...

Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said. Johnson's calculations helped ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...