Refer to You Should Meet Katherine Johnson for a complete version of this text. When Katherine graduates from college, there are limited career opportunities for African American women.

Which detail from You Should Meet Katherine Johnson best supports this idea?“In 1952 Katherine heard that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was hiring African American female research mathematicians!”

“Early in NASA’s history, only men attended the briefing meetings where spaceflight was discussed.”

“The only good jobs for college-educated African American women at the time were teaching or nursing jobs.”

“In 1953, electronic computers were not generally used, so research mathematicians, who were often called ‘computers,’ did the math that the engineers needed.”