“Here we have these women who changed the course of America, the history of this nation and we don't know about them,' actress Taraji Henson, who plays Johnson Glenn in 'Hidden Figures', one of NASA's first black female employees.
John Glenn gained his place in American lore when in 1962 he came the first American to orbit the Earth. That mission, however, never would have happened without Katherine Johnson.
"I read the script and I just remember initially being angry," actress Taraji Henson, who plays Johnson in the film, told NBC News."Here we have these women who changed the course of America, the history of this nation and we don't know about them." Johnson graduated college at just 18 years old and went into teaching, the only field open to hiring black women at the time. Johnson still had a dream: to work at NASA. In 1953, at the age of 35, she was hired as one of the agency's first black female recruits.
A trailblazer for women of color in the field, Johnson's story will soon no longer be hidden from history.Rehema Ellis joined NBC News in 1994 as a general assignment correspondent. In 2010 she was named education correspondent and was an integral part of NBC’s first annual Education Nation summit that focused on the strengths and weaknesses of America’s education system.
As a correspondent for NBC, Ellis traveled to Zaire to report on the mass killings that left an estimated one million people dead in Rwanda. A few years later she spent a month in Greece covering the summer Olympics.
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