Katherine G. Johnson

Katherine G. Johnson

Katherine G. Johnson, born Katherine Coleman on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia was a bright child with a gift for numbers, she breezed through her classes and completed the eighth grade by age 10. Katherine Johnson enrolled at West Virginia...
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Dorothy Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 20, 1910. At age seven, her parents, Leonard and Anne Johnson moved the family to Morgantown, West Virginia. She graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925, and four years later, received a Bachelor of...