Katherine Johnson Civil Rights Movement

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The end of the Civil Rights Movement brought a lot of change in the United States. The United States was trying to get out of from a mostly farm working and farming society, mostly in the south, more hard-working economy (Alvah). Most of this was from the slaves working in the field and to other stuff in the field.Plus they did not have rights to not do the work so they worked for horses.What the wives do is probably is work at home or take care of kids.Including that they can’t leave the house that much and they did not have the rights to vote.If people did not have the rights to vote back then they can’t choose a president that the people thing that is good or bad.If it was a bad president they would make you work and some wives had to work …show more content…
(C)She did not just get into NASA by standing she made a B-17 bomber.She did not work alone all the time she all so worked with astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr with a space mission and she won an award for making the B-17 bomber and then NASA gave her an invite to join them.(E)She was building the B-17 bomber for war to help the slaves or she was building it for research purposes and Alan B. Shepard, Jr, and Katherine Johnson were working together to do the first space mission and the were working on an Earth Resources Satellite, which helps locate underground minerals after her work got recognized she won. Two NASA Group Achievement Awards in 1967 and 1970.(Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson) She also won special achievement awards in 1970, 1980, and 1985. She retired in 1992. The National Technical Association named her Mathematician of the Year in 1997.(R) Katherine Johnson was kind of important part of the civil rights moments because she is the one out of probably million slaves that got a job as teacher then she start doing a project on the B-17 bomber and she did well on that project and when people start noticing it she got a Job in NASA and she all so got

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