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"Katherine Johnson was 97 years old in 2015, when the world caught up to her. That year, President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian honor-for her pioneering work decades earlier as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. The next year, a blockbuster movie, Hidden Figures, told the world the story of the West Area Computing unit, where Katherine worked as a human computer...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 I grew up hearing my father, who was white, say that he was just as good as anyone else, but no better. I chose to believe him, and grew up believing that I was equal to anyone.
#2 White Sulphur Springs, located in the Allegheny Mountains, was a popular vacation destination for the wealthy in the 1800s. It was there that my father met my mother, who was a waitress...
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