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Kathryn Johnson Kathryn Johnson (December 15, 1878) in Darke County, Ohio was a political activist and the first African American women to serve as a field agent for the NAACP.

Upon graduating from Wilberforce University with a bachelor degree and teaching certificate in 1920, she continues teaching. She later left the field of teaching in 1910 to work for the NAACP. She helped build membership branches in the south in 1913 even though the South at that time was not accepting of black people especially a black woman going there to build NAACP branches.She was later on let go by the NAACP rumors had it because she was very outspoken about the fact that white had more power and position than black in the NAACP. She and Adie Huston went on to France during World War 1 and kept record of the ill treatment and the problems black soldiers faced. Upton returning to the U.S they published a book ‘’ Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920)’’. “Dedicated to the women of our race, who gave so trustingly and courageously the strongest of their manhood to suffer and to die for the cause of freedom.’’ She also joined a nationwide campaign to spread black literature. She helped sold many copy of books by black author called Two-Foot Shelf. She died in 1955 in Chicago.

Reference {{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Kathryn|title=Kathryn M Johnson 1878-1955|url=http://www.blackpast.org/aah/kathryn-magnolia-johnson-1878-1955|website=Blackpast.org|publisher=Andrew Curry| access date June 12, 2015

{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Kathryn|title=Kathryn Johnson, A front line Activist|url=http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/kathryn-johnson-front-line-activist|website=African American Registry|publisher=Tanya Bolden access date June 12, 2015