John Glenn's Hidden Figures

In the book Hidden Figures written by Margot Lee Shetterly, Katherine Johnson is one of the main characters. Known as a human computer working for NASA. Katherine is a very smart woman who graduated from college when she was 18 years old and when she was 10 years old she attended high school. She is one of the first African Americans to work for NASA. She would work on some of the hardest calculations and would still find ways to solve them. She was a very hard worker but did not get credit for what she did because she is African American, she made history.

Even though being a women was hard enough in the 60’s but being a black woman was even hard or impossible to get a good paying job. She was working for NASA for a while but in 1973 NASA promoted Christine Darden to an aerospace engineer by her superior John V. Becker. Before she got promoted she was doing some stuff that her bosses didn't know about. She got caught and it

There was Mary and one other African American women working in the East Computers. The other lady was Dorothy Vaughan. Mary and Dorothy helped NASA by providing important information that was later used in the early days of the NASA space program.

Marie Daly Marie Daly is a famous biochemist who had to overcome dual hurdles of racial and gender bias to peruse her lifelong love of chemistry. Marie had to undergo judgment from her being a woman and trying to become a scientist, which was a male dominated occupation and also had to endure racism because she was an African American. Marie made many scientific discoveries that we are lucky to have today.

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African Americans have been making history for years knowing people will think they are not capable of exceeding anything, that african Americans are incapable to change the world but it was possible and the proof is right in front of you with the products they have created that benefit everyone today. Math is one of the reason that help us understand why the world is like this today and how everything function, also it brought us mathematician which is an expert in math, so anyone can be a mathematician and it doesn’t matter what gender, race, ethnicity, and etc. An african-american mathematician known as Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. is known for america’s most important contemporary mathematician which is a big title for this individual was

Katherine Johnson is the main focus in the movie. She gets moved from the West computers where the colored women work to work for Al Harrison who is the director of the space test group in the East Area. Katherine Goble Johnson becomes Harrison’s analytical geometry computer. When she gets there one of the men give her the trash can because he thinks that she is the custodian. Also, Katherine goes to get a cup of coffee and all the men stare at her. The next day there is a coffee pot that says colored. Katherine goes to poor it but the pot is empty. Then Katherine has to use the bathroom and asks her supervisor where’s the bathroom and her supervisor says “I don’t know where your bathroom is.” So she ends up having to run half a mile to the bathroom and back. Further on in the movie Johnson goes to bathroom on a rainy day and when she comes back Al asks her where she goes everyday for 40 minutes. Katherine ends up flipping out explaining that she gets paid poorly,can’t afford pearls,and how she feels because all of them don’t wanna touch the coffee pot just because she’s a colored woman. In the end Katherine goes on to perform calculations for the Apollo II mission to the moon and space shuttle. The movie states that in 2016 there was a building dedicated for her and her work with space travel called Katherine Goble Johnson Computational Building. Also, at the age of ninety seven she was awarded with the Presidential medal of freedom. One of Katherine’s colleges that

Katherine got to work right away, asking to go to meetings that women don't typically go to. She worked long hours to find her calculations. But with the help of the men in the room, she finally came out with a solution. She calculated the exact path John Glenn had to take in order to orbit Earth. The computers also got an answer and John Glenn wasn't going to be 100% confident with the answer until Katherine Johnson checked the work. It took her a day and a half but she got the exact same calculations.

Katherine was hired as one of the women for the tedious and precise work of measuring and calculating the results of the wind tunnel test in 1935. During WW2, the NACA expanded this effect to include African-American women. They were so pleased by the women's results that they kept the women's computer work. By 1953, demands of the space research meant there were openings for African-American computer at Langley Research Center’s Guidance and Navigation Department and Katherine found her place to put her extraordinary mathematical skills to work. As a computer, she calculated to trajectory for Alan shepard the first American in space. Even after NASA began using electronic computers, John Glenn requested that she personally recheck the calculations

Katherine Johnson born Katherine Coleman was an African-American research mathematician and computer scientist for NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics now known as NASA. She made phenomenal contributions by calculating trajectories, helping to send the first Americans into space.

The movie Hidden Figures is about 3 African American women who work for NASA during the 1950’s.The three women are Katherine Johnson,Dorothy Vaughn,and Mary Jackson.Katherine Johnson had a hidden talent that most of the people that worked at NASA didn't know she had , she was a master

Hidden Figures is a film based on a remarkable true story about three colored women in the 1960s. The movie follows the lives of Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Kathrine Johnson. These women used their intellect at NASA to contribute to the launch of the first American into space. Hidden Figures also represents the contribution of these women to society. They helped put a man in space, yet they didn’t receive the proper appreciation during their time. Hidden Figures helps give those women gratitude for all that they did for NASA and the United States. Even though this film acknowledges their achievements, it recognizes the hardships the women faced while working for NASA as well as the hardships of all other African American women in the workplace. A few of the hardships they faced were sexism, discrimination, and ageism.

From the beginning of the movie, the smart mind of Katherine Johnson; she was a real genius that humanity needs. After finishing school, she applied to work for NASA. She could solve the math problems that the white men could not solve. When she first came to work at the Space Task Group, which is calculating the coordinates of takeoff and landing for the spaceship, she got none of the respect from her white colleagues, especially Paul Stafford, but she was not discouraged. She gained the attention of her boss, Mr. Al Harrison. One day, Mr. Harrison couldn’t find her in the office, when she got back to her work, Mr. Harrison was mad at her and ask:” Where has she been?” Then, she replied that she has to walk half miles away from the office, where she was working on the building that has a bathroom for colored peoples. After that, Harrison went to the building that Katherine has to walk half miles every day to go

At the start of the movie the three women are assigned to a large group of “human calculators” who work in a back room distant from the other scientists. The women were subjected to constant racial and gender discrimination because of the Jim Crow error. They were denied promotions, forced to use separate distant bathrooms and were expected to never complain. Throughout the film segregation played a huge role. This included protesters with banners, Johnson jogging 40 minutes every day in high heels and piles of papers in her hand to use the colored restroom. Johnson worked alongside with white men and drank coffee from their large coffee pot one day. The next day it was replaced with a small empty coffee pot labeled “colored coffee.” As a woman, she also faced issues of gender discrimination. She was not allowed to attend informational briefings that was crucial for her career

During this movie, there seems to be a problem with race equality. Not so much of NASA not hiring black people, but with them actually helping out and trying to solve the problem. From the article Hidden Figures and the Appeal of Math in an Age or Inequality, it says “ It’s about winning battles as a result of common interests even as you adversaries have trouble seeing you as a person who