{"id":51384,"date":"2017-02-03T15:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51384"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T15:02:38","slug":"hidden-no-more-katherine-johnson-a-black-nasa-pioneer-finds-acclaim-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51384","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hidden\u2019 no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/hidden-no-more-katherine-johnson-a-black-nasa-pioneer-finds-acclaim-at-98\/2017\/01\/27\/d6a6feb8-dd0f-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u2018Hidden\u2019 no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2017-01-27<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VStMartin\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victoria St. Martin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/1055398c-ddc3-11e6-8902-610fe486791c\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fame has finally found <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a> \u2014 and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> mathematician at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langley_Research_Center\" target=\"_blank\">Langley Research Center<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampton,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Hampton, Va.<\/a>, where she played an unseen but pivotal role in the country\u2019s space missions. That she was an African American woman in an almost all-male and white workforce made her career even more remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Now, three decades after retiring from the agency, Johnson is portrayed by actress <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taraji_P._Henson\" target=\"_blank\">Taraji P. Henson<\/a> in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidden_Figures\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Figures<\/a>,\u201d a film based on a book of the same name. The movie tells how a group of black women \u2014 world-class mathematicians all \u2014 helped provide NASA with data crucial to the success of the agency\u2019s early spaceflights. \u201cHidden Figures\u201d was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award for best picture.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly Johnson, who will turn 99 in August, finds herself inundated with interview requests, award banquet invitations and people who just want to stop by and shake her hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad that I\u2019m young enough still to be living and that they are, so they can look and see, \u2018That\u2019s who that is,\u2019\u2009\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they are as excited as I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For many people, especially African Americans, her tale of overcoming racism and sexism is inspirational&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/hidden-no-more-katherine-johnson-a-black-nasa-pioneer-finds-acclaim-at-98\/2017\/01\/27\/d6a6feb8-dd0f-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Hidden\u2019 no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98 The Washington Post 2017-01-27 Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson \u2014 and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,20,25],"tags":[19571,19572,19573,2875,26123,2581],"class_list":["post-51384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-the-washington-post","tag-victoria-st-martin","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51385,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51384\/revisions\/51385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}