Which of the following statements best describes the central idea of the text?

A. Katherine Johnson overcame racial and gender discrimination and became one of the top mathematicians at NASA.

B. Katherine Johnson wanted to work for NASA, but her status as an African American woman prevented her from doing so.

C. Katherine Johnson was responsible for designing the first space probe sent to the Moon.

D. Katherine Johnson had a difficult childhood, but after beginning work at NASA, she faced less discrimination.

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By saying how rare and uncommon it is for any woman to have a degree in math or science let alone a black woman, and what she went through to get her position in NASA.

I think it's more important to have an education to achieve their goals. If you have a good education over time it would lead you to achieve your goals and like for Katherine, no one told her to be a mathematician she chose to do that on her own.

It meant that she didn't have that many jobs to choose from since she was a black woman at the time meaning the only thing she could pursue is teaching since you needed to know stuff for it but luckily she got a job at NASA.

In this time we define them as the same because we have done went through women and blacks rights but in her time period a black woman with a degree and working at NASA was never heard of and she helped get more women and blacks to pursuit more things.

answer: the third option is your answer

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