African American Women In Hidden Figures

From the polarization of African Americans to redefining underrepresented groups in STEM fields, Hidden Figures offers a true story that was never been told and never acknowledged. Computers are known as man’s power tool, but for NASA in the early 1960s, three African American women served as computers for one single mission, being able to put a man in space. Based in Hampton, Virginia, at the NASA Headquarters, three African American women persevere through the unmatchable odds of a segregated America, and facing racial and gender inferiority among a white male majority. The combination of being a black woman in a white America, not only brings light to the advancement of minorities, but fosters a change in status for African American women,

Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy play an integral part to NASA's team of human computers. As employees, these women are responsible for calculations for NASA, before the mass use of computers. However, since Virginia is a segregated state, African American female computers need to work in a different areas that’s almost more than 1 mile away from the actual headquarters at the Langley Research Center. Yet, the U.S. competitive personae that led the arms race, against the Soviet Union, into space that NASA becomes a meritocracy. Because of her aptitude in mathematical concepts, Katherine is appointed to an uncommon task, attempting to get Glenn into space. She touches base at her new occupation to discover she's the only African American in the room, even worse a

It provides the microphone to the story that was never heard, by depicting a small group of the African American women who worked at the space program Watching this specific story spread out on the wide screen, it's hard not to consider what number of more films and books could be made about inspiring women like Katherine Johnson, who weren’t given the spotlight, along these lines of history, since they weren't white. However, this movie is key to our society today, as many women are underrepresented in STEM fields, and making it a norm that STEM is for men. But even when women are attempting to take part in STEM careers, they often are not accepted, and can be sometimes mixed up for janitors, similar to how Katherine was first perceived as in the beginning. This movie in particular, comes to show that Hollywood will be a better industry when there are more movies about the self images and triumphs of colored women who changed the world. Be that as it may, Hidden Figures sparkles with the deference for sisterhood and the revolutionary soul, that confers gratefulness for what was accomplished in