Neither does she leave out gender role history. Not only does the young reader get an unsanitized racial history within this first chapter, but also intriguing Native American myth as to how the Sulphur Springs were formed. And she explains how it affected every aspect of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia including the five-star hotel which allowed her father to come through the front door only when he was working carrying the guests’ luggage, etc. Separate but unequal was the law of the land. Sandwiched within this chapter, is Katherine’s frank explanation for why her school Mary Mcleod Bethune Grade School was on a dirt road and the white children’s school set on a paved road. She has seen how her parents’ sincere efforts had failed. It begins with four-year-old Katherine trying to help her brother Charlie ( two years older than her) figure out his math homework. It is divided into seven well-orchestrated, well carved out chapters that will make not only a young reader but an older reader, appreciate the part this black mathematician played in helping to land a man on the moon, thus finally beating the Russians in the space race! Told in the voice of a quiet grandmotherly griot, this mother of three chronicles her humble birth (Augin White Sulphur Springs, West, Virginia): youngest of four siblings her rearing her schooling her marriage her working at NACA later changed to NASA on up to her retirement in 1986.Ĭonsisting of 38 pages, Chapter 1 sets the very simple and brutally honest tone for the rest of the chapters.
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson gave to me (vis a vis her autobiography Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson) just published five months ago. “There it is,” she admonished, “read it!” That was the exact command, 101-year-old Dr. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon and Shuster, 2019, pgs. The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson.
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