Though she comes up against racism more than once at the NACA, she maintains her sparkplug personality and manages to charm everyone she comes into contact with, without losing sight of her dedication to her work and her community. Upon joining the segregated NACA workforce in 1953, she refuses to use the colored bathrooms or to allow prejudice to make her feel small. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson worked as a math teacher and briefly pursued graduate study in mathematics before joining the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as a computer under 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.
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