Which details from the first three chapters of You Should Meet Katherine Johnson support the main idea that there were fewer opportunities for African Americans to receive an education and find good jobs when Katherine was young?

Select the two correct answers.

Responses

Katherine's father owned a farm and Katherine's mother had been a school teacher.

Katherine was hired to work as a "computer," someone who did the math that NACA engineers needed.

Though Katherine graduated with honors with a math degree in 1937, she was not hired to work for NACA until 1953.

Katherine and her siblings had to move 120 miles away in order to attend high school.