Katherine Johnson Hidden Figures

A movie called, Hidden Figures, was the true story of an African American woman named Katherine Johnson that had a niche for mathematics, she was above her class and age level when it came to solving math equations. She was gifted with the brainpower to solve college level math when she was still in grammar school. The story goes along her life's story on how she changed the name for African American women, back in her time, African Americans were segregated and had little to no chance in going into a professional career. Now, for African American women, it was even harder to get credit for their hard work by anyone of another race, especially since the majority of people were Caucasians.

Katherine eventually lands a job at NASA and is

Katherine and her two friends that are also the same race, also worked for NASA. They changed African American history for the better and are now forever remembered as American heroes. An outstanding moment during the movie was when she was caught not present at her desk because she had to use the bathroom and had no other choice but to run close to half a mile each time she had to go. She returns in a rush only to find out her boss noticed, as was not working at her desk. She is asked why she was not at her desk and she stands her ground and firmly states that since she is a woman of color, she has to run to the other side of the building she works in and across the parking lot and into a back building which is almost equivalent to a half a mile or 4 blocks away. She also reminds them that she cannot do most of the things that they can do because she is not allowed to, keep in mind she works in a room full of Caucasian males that give her a hard to to readjust to her new working area, also her boss is a Caucasian male which he was surprisingly not did not give her as hard a time as her fellow co-workers did, besides that one incident, which was

They were a trio and a force that cannot be reckoned with. Katherine is one of the most recognizable faces in NASA. As years pass she finally lives to the day she is recognized. She is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, at ninety-seven years old. She is the most renowned mathematician in the twentieth century and has gone down in history as a person who can defy the