Title

Katherine Johnson

Authors

Linda Adams

Files

Description

WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918. Her talent for math helped her graduate summa cum laude from West Virginia State College with a degree in Math and French. In 1953, NASA hired her as a “computer” and in 1958 she was employed as an Aerospace Technologist. She won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

Publisher

90.9 WMPG FM

City

Portland, Maine

Keywords

Human computer, Aerospace Technologist, Black History Month

Disciplines

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Recommended Citation

Adams, Linda, "Katherine Johnson" (2020). Black History Month Segments. 36.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_bhm/36