The Johnsons were married for six decades, until his death in March. Goble died of a brain tumor in 1956, and three years later she married Jim Johnson. She married James Goble in 1939 and had three daughters. To be able to sit and talk with someone who helped change America, that empowers me.” “Katherine Johnson is not an African-American story or a women’s story - she is an American story. “She was not just a part of NASA’s story,” Jenkins said a few weeks before the statue dedication in 2018. West Virginia State President Anthony Jenkins said he wondered whether Johnson truly understood how broad her impact had been. Some 82 years after she graduated, on her 100th birthday, her alma mater dedicated a statue of her on campus and endowed a scholarship directed at young women in technological fields of study.
When she had mastered every math class offered at the school, the professors established new ones to challenge her. She matriculated into the college at age 14 and earned degrees in mathematics and French at age 18 with summa cum laude honors. Growing up in a county that did not educate black children past the eighth grade, she attended high school courses on the campus of historically black West Virginia State University.
26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Whenever I think about standing at the feet of genius, those are the words I think of. She always said she doesn’t understand what’s the big deal because she was just doing her job to the best of her ability. “She gave voice to capabilities and competencies and talents that often had not been allowed to percolate to the surface. “She is the shoulders I stand on and the bar I try to reach,” Cagle said.
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