In 2015, at the age of ninety-seven, Johnson became a global celebrity for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flight into space. In her memoir Johnson provides a record of racial history that reveals the influential role Black educators played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like herself, and brings into focus the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations. -- adapted from jacket
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Katherine Johnson ; with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore and with Lisa Frazier Page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235).
