![]() #Movie true storyo of black nasa women movie#Though the movie focuses on a few extraordinary cases - Katherine Johnson last year received the Presidential Medal of Freedom - it’s by no means an isolated story. According to reporting by the New York Times, a movie producer bought the rights to the film as soon as she saw the book’s proposal. It’s a great story, painstakingly unearthed by Shetterly. The trailer promises to tell a true story seemingly tailor-made for mass appeal and inspirational cultural currency: Plucky, exceptional individuals overcoming extraordinary odds to accomplish amazing, historically significant feats. Hidden Figures showcases the women of NASA’s Langley West Computing Area CREDIT: SCREENSHOT, YOUTUBE In fact, the New York Times reports that when Octavia Spencer first read the script, she thought it was fiction - too good to be true. Just like the cop in the trailer for Hidden Figures has no idea that a place like NASA would hire black women in the 1960s, most Americans are oblivious to this part of NASA’s history today. “I wouldn’t have to,” she replies saltily. “If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?” an administrator asks Jackson in the trailer. Even while doing cutting-edge science alongside white peers, black engineers and computers still had to sit at marked, segregated lunch tables in the cafeteria. But they still had to beat every kind of odd to be taken seriously. ![]() ![]() As documented by Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of the forthcoming book Hidden Figures, which the film is based on, black women were given few paths to advancement - they could only supervise other black women, while white women could supervise both black and white women, and white men could supervise anybody.Ĭompared to their other options, working at NASA gave black women the kind of economic security they couldn’t have dreamed of elsewhere. And being a black woman got you pushed even further down the ladder. But similarly qualified men were hired as engineers, while the women came in at a lower rung. ![]()
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