Episode 25 - Katherine Johnson

Jess tells Grace the story Katherine Johnson 1918-2020, an American Mathematician who worked for NASA and helped put the first man on the moon against a background of racial segregation and the civil rights movement.  She is one of the women celebrated in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures."

Sources:

• United States Civil Rights Trail - West Virginia https://civilrightstrail.com/state/west-virginia/West Virginia – US Civil Rights Trail
• www.notevenpast.org
• 2017 page IHS Roundtable – Loving v. Virginia After 50 Years
• Migration of African Americans to West Virginia: Hinton Depot; Hinton, WV https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/migration-of-african-americans-to-west-virginia-hinton-depot-hinton-wv.htm
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
• The Segregation Era (1900–1939) https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/segregation-era.html
• David Guttman, West Virginia has a complicated history with race and civil rights (2014, updated 2017) - West Virginia Gazette https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/west-virginia-has-a-complicated-history-with-race-and-civil-rights/article_4805cb60-d947-5946-ab37-8f2e7f410fb3.html
• American Association of University Women https://www.aauw.org/about/history/