Who Is Euler's Hidden Figures Still Relevant Today?

Hidden Figures displayed integrity, persistence, and dedication to achieve things that may have been deemed impossible at that time. 1961, was a year where the workplace and schools were segregated, and colored individuals were oppressed to the point where they were not allowed to share the same bathrooms with Caucasian individuals.

Most people don’t know the backstory of one of the first African American women to help the first space launch. Katherine Johnson was one of them. They were called computers because they were African American. She affected the greatest history event of all time.It is a pleasure for me to tell you about the impact Katherine Johnson made in our lives till this day.

Hidden Figures takes place in the 1960’s, a time when women and people of color were not always treated fairly and were overlooked. All throughout the film Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn face the challenges of being black women and working for NASA. The women persevere until they achieve their dreams and leave their mark. In the film there is an underlying theme regarding race, segregation, and equality. These issues were very present in that time period and even still occur in present day. The three women did not let this stand in their way and ended up making history. Hidden Figures proves that racism and prejudice must be overcome.

The societies that Hidden Figures and Twelve Angry Men both face is packed with prejudice and, discrimination that can prevent progression among the underprivileged. Thus, change is important to help decrease these bigotry acts and further progression amongst society. Hidden Figures is set in the 1960’s in Virgina, America. During this time, Virgina was the only segregated state left in America which meant that everything was separated based on race, based on whether you were “colored” or white. This segregation determined where you would drink from, where you sat on the bus, what books you could read, where you would learn, where you would work, where you ate, where you stand in society. It determined your everyday life. This segregated society was separated by race where primarily the “colored” were always given the disadvantages, and that’s how society worked, one that Hidden Figures knows all too well. Mary is an African-American woman with the brain of an engineer but with the position of a computer. Now there is something wrong there. If you have the mind of an engineer why be a computer? Simple. Because African-American women cannot be engineers “Now you want to be an engineer? A female engineer. We’re Negro, baby. Ain’t no such thing. Understand it.” Here we see Levi, her husband, the man who is supposed to be by her side in every decision she makes, someone who should be supporting her every step, bring her down simply because it is unheard of for African-American

Katherine Johnson born Katherine Coleman was an African-American research mathematician and computer scientist for NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics now known as NASA. She made phenomenal contributions by calculating trajectories, helping to send the first Americans into space.

She was not seen as a person but as a computer, who spent all day calculating the engineers problems. However, Katherine challenged this treatment and broke the stereotypes and gender roles placed on her. She began asking questions and, because she had such an intelligent mind, wanted to know the reasoning behind the work she was doing. She was the first women to attend the NASA briefings, which were thought to be for men only, however, there was no law that stated this. She continued to advance herself by using her mathematician status to teach the men at NASA geometry and began leading them. Before, Katherine was the “human computer” doing the calculations for her leader, but now, she was the leader. All of this advancement for a black woman at the time, wouldn’t be possible without her intelligence, hard work, and

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson was born August 26, 1918. Since a little girl Katherine showed interested in numbers, she herself even said, “I counted everything, I counted the steps on the road, the steps up to church, the numbers of dished and silverware I washed… anything that could counted, I did” (Loff). From here on Katherine went to school. The curiosity of wanting to know more about mathematics lead her to skip several grades. Being a person of color and a woman at this time it

This article relates to the concept of the complexity of identity formation regarding race and social class. Race is a social construct. Most people's perceptions of race is based on the color of one's skin. During the hiring process of the mathematicians referenced in the article, others assumed differences in these women's intellectual abilities compared with their own. White Americans did not want African Americans to succeed. Their stories were never told and their contributions to society were never uncovered because the dominant culture wanted the credit all for themselves. In Maya Wei-Haas article she says, “Though the pressing needs of war were great, racial discrimination remained strong and few jobs existed for African-Americans,

As a young woman of color the main focus of the newly elect president is that women of color continue to be underrepresented in the most areas of science, technology engineering and mathematics (STEM), and research is needed to understand the experiences of women of color in those areas( Ong, Wright, Espinosa, and Orefield, 2011). Study shows, we centralize the mathematical sense making of these students to counter the common colorblind approach to studying cognition.

Segregation, a prominent social injustice in American history, is depicted in both Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help. By definition, segregation is the separation of someone or something. During 1960s America, colored people were mistreated regularly. Laws separated those who were white and those who were not. Both groups lived apart and were given separate bathrooms, libraries, and more. However, the colored facilities often were worse in quality, and many endured racism from their white counterparts. There was a wide spectrum of hate crime that varied in severity, as some people were even targets for brutal crimes simply for the amount of melanin in their skin. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden figures is a movie about racism and sexes. In the movie hidden figures racism is not a thing that is really big but there is a few big parts where the women had to walk across the buildings to get to the black women only bathrooms. White men and women would also treat black folks very different they would have different jobs because they thought black men and women did not the same education as they did. Black men and women also had to drink from different water fountains and go to different schools. The main thing is though when a women received a job opportunity at a different place where only white folks were worked at that changed everything.

Shetterly grew up surrounded by these mathematicians and other famous, white male engineers working for NASA, and was astonished at how many of them were Black women. With an intriguing introduction to the book, Shetterly captures the reader’s attention by describing how rare and precious these women, including Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, are. When Shetterly set out to understand their role in the space race and discover how vital they were, she brings along all of her

The plot of Hidden figures is three young black women struggling for respect in a business full of white men at the NASA Space Program. The movie Hidden Figures takes place in the 1960’s in Washington D.C. The main characters in the movie include: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn,

Most likely, you have visited the cinema this year. Perhaps your favorite show was Beauty and the Beast, A Dog’s Purpose, or even The Boss Baby. Out of all the new releases, however, one movie stood out to me the most. It tracks the lives of three black women who computed the detailed calculations for NASA, making John Glenn’s flight into orbit possible. However, these geniuses, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, did not accomplish their feats with ease. This movie, Hidden Figures, narrates how these women remarkably overcame the barriers of race and gender to reach the impossible. Everyone must watch this film because it provides insight into Black culture, reveals fascinating history, and inspires others to defend their

Prior to 2017 the names Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson were not known to many Americans. However, the recent film Hidden Figures, based on the book written by Margot Lee Shetterly, shares the story of these three women who contributed to the success of NASA’s space missions. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson’s achievements also represented the new possibilities for female African-Americans to advance their careers at a time when the United States South still has Jim Crow Laws in place. In the film Hidden Figures, the director Theodore Melfi accurately depicts historical events present in the book and in historical accounts. However, Melfi changed the dates of these events so they happened between 1961