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  1. However, a younger generation of people like Christine is moving up the ranks in NASA, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson. Previous section Chapters Twenty-One–Twenty-Three Next section Full Book Analysis

  2. Hidden Figures Full Book Analysis. Hidden Figures recounts the true story of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson. These three Black women are the protagonists in their own life stories set against the backdrop of the Space Race and the Civil Rights Movement. The racism and sexism they experience at both Langley and in their ...

  3. Hidden Figures. Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson. Katherine is a brilliant student smart enough to skip grades second through fifth in school. Her backstory shows how smart, talented, and charming she was. By age fifteen, she was attending West Virginia State College. Here, Katherine impresses a brilliant and demanding professor, William ...

  4. Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine Coleman (who took on the married names Goble and Johnson) is a passionate, outspoken black mathematician who works in the Flight Research Division at the Langley Research Center. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson worked as a math teacher and briefly pursued graduate study in mathematics before ...

  5. Katherine Johnson joins West Computing in 1953 (at the time she was known as Katherine Goble, having taken the last name of her first husband, who dies of an inoperable tumor in 1956, but she’s most famous as Johnson, so this summary will refer to her as such). Johnson is at Langley two weeks before Vaughan assigns her to a project for the ...

  6. Hidden Figures Summary. Next. Prologue. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, VA seeks to hire hundreds of junior physicists and mathematicians to help in the war effort by supporting engineers in performing aeronautical research as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ...

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  8. Complete summary of Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Hidden Figures. ... Katherine Johnson, previously a master’s student in math ...

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