Katherine began her studies at West Virginia State High School in 1928 and graduated in 1932. In the summer they would return around 200 km to White Sulphur Springs where Joshua worked as a farmer. White Sulphur Springs had no high school for black children and the Coleman family were determined that their children would have a quality education so, every autumn, Katherine's mother moved with her children to a rented home in Institute, Kanawha County, West Virginia, so their children could attend high school there. At age ten she was ready to enter high school. When she was eight years old she should have entered the fifth grade but, being one of the best students, she was put straight into the sixth grade of a newly opened school, having at this stage overtaken her brother Charles who was three years older but now a grade below Katherine. Katherine attended elementary school from the age of five but even at that stage she was advanced for her age and went straight into the second grade. She also had an older sister, Margaret, born about 1913. Katherine had two older brothers, Horace born about 1912 and Charles born about 1915. Joylette, the daughter of Lee Lowe and Roberta Johnson, was born in 1887 in Caswell County, North Carolina and became a school teacher. He married Joylette Roberta Lowe on 29 September 1909 in Danville, Virginia. Joshua worked at various jobs, farming, odd jobs and as a janitor. Katherine's father was Joshua Mckinley Coleman, born in White Sulphur Springs on 18 December 1881 to Horace Coleman and Margaret Johnson. Johnson is her married name (from her second husband ) but, for the sake of simplicity, we will use the name Katherine up to the point when she married for the second time. Biography Katherine Johnson was given the name Katherine Coleman on her birth.
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