{"id":52408,"date":"2017-03-13T01:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52408"},"modified":"2017-03-13T01:52:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:52:19","slug":"katherine-johnson-is-not-the-first-black-woman-to-accomplish-some-of-the-things-she-did-but-the-first-woman-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=52408","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson is not the first black woman to accomplish some of the things she did but the first woman, period."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/modernfigures\" target=\"_blank\">some of the interviews NASA has done<\/a> with its modern figures\u2019\u2014women of color at NASA who are scientists, mathematicians and engineers, and they make me really happy,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/science.gsfc.nasa.gov\/sed\/bio\/heather.v.graham\" target=\"_blank\">[Heather] Graham<\/a> says, \u201cbecause I want the message to get out that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson\u2019s<\/a> achievements aren\u2019t history but rather the beginning of a movement of women in space science! Katherine Johnson is not the first black woman to accomplish some of the things she did but the first woman, period. She\u2019s such an all purpose hero!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Linda Billings, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52399\" target=\"_blank\">Before \u201cHidden Figures,\u201d There Was a Rock Opera About NASA\u2019s Human Computers<\/a>,\u201d <em>Air &amp; Space Magazine<\/em>, February 3, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/hidden-figures-there-was-rock-opera-about-nasas-human-computers-180961980\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/daily-planet\/hidden-figures-there-was-rock-opera-about-nasas-human-computers-180961980\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Johnson is not the first black woman to accomplish some of the things she did but the first woman, period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26440,26439,26437,26442,26441,19571,26438,19572],"class_list":["post-52408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-air-space","tag-air-space-magazine","tag-heather-graham","tag-heather-v-graham","tag-heather-valeah-graham","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-linda-billings","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52408","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=52408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52409,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52408\/revisions\/52409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}