Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Hidden Figures is well-crafted historical fiction that is inspirational for young women and students of color, as well as for the public in general. Vaughan, Johnson, and Jackson are outstanding role models for young people who are trying to break through barriers of prejudice and glass ceilings in employment. It provides excellent opportunities for class discussion and assignments. Watch the film with your children and tell them while the movie is fictional, the three ladies shown actually lived and worked at NASA, and that the movie give us some idea of their experiences.
Also, be sure to put the film in perspective. By the s it was clear to American leaders that the next war would have a different tactical lynchpin than WWI: much of the war would be fought in the air.
This opened the door a crack for women at Langley, as it did in many other fields. During WWII, when many of the men were needed to soldier in Europe and the Pacific, the need for manpower to fuel the American war materials machine became a need for woman power as well.
Thus, the door for women in these fields opened a little further. While increasing numbers of women were being integrated into the workforce, another social change was underway.
In , as American industry geared up to produce the weapons to fight WWII, a group of civil rights activists led by A. In , employment applications began arriving at Langley from black women. For example, Dorothy Vaughan, one of the three main characters in the film, came to NASA when she saw a federal civil service bulletin intended to recruit white women. Butler began hiring well-qualified black women to work as human computers. White females worked at East Computing.
Shetterly 8. Propelled by the Civil Rights movement, opportunities for blacks to work in the aeronautics and space industries opened up a little more during the s and s. The administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by increasing the resources that went into scientific research and training.
Additionally, U. Shetterly These were designed to denigrate and suppress African Americans. One of the pillars of Jim Crow was separate sanitary facilities. Every day in cities, towns, and villages across the South, African Americans faced personal emergencies when the only restroom available for what could quickly became urgent needs was forbidden.
This disgraceful practice is treated semi-humorously in the film — cinematically, there was no other way to present it. However, the unavailability of restrooms was no laughing matter for African Americans who had to live under Jim Crow.
It was Halloween night in Hard at work on his task, he heard a sound behind him, looked over his shoulder, and saw a police cruiser come to a stop. Fifteen at the time, he was released after a few hours on the condition that he clean up the sign. An African-American teenager would probably not have been treated in such a lenient fashion.
In it fell to 35 percent — where it remains today. This average, of course, aggregates data from many neighborhoods where blacks have virtually no exposure to whites, and others where integration is advanced.
Nonetheless, by this measure there has been no progress in reducing segregation [in housing] for the last 60 years. How integrated is your neighborhood? They contributed to initiatives to integrate society and achieve economic and social justice. This campaign intentionally echoed the concept of the double consciousness of blacks in a racist society, a concept articulated by the African-American intellectual W. Du Bois, and analyzed in his signature book, The Souls of black Folk.
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