Henson), Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) and Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) are employed as mathematicians at the Langley Research Center, working to send an American astronaut into space by being the arithmetical “brains” of the project. The Space Race portrays the competitive rivalry between the Cold War opponents, the Soviet Union and the United States, as they contend with one another to gain superiority in space achievements.
The three brilliant mathematicians work for NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, during the Space Race of the 20th-century. The film takes place circa 1960 in Hampton, Virginia, where African-American women nationwide experienced immense racial and sexist discrimination. Written by Medfi and Allison Schroeder, the biographical film Hidden Figures portrays a story concerning three intellectually gifted African-American women who work to make history. This was the vague social environment in which the movie, Hidden Figures, look place in.
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Simultaneously, the race to be the first human in space was in full bloom and brilliant mathematicians were needed. Virgina, a southeastern United States state, was in the nation’s spotlight for resistance and monumental civil rights cases. In the 1960s, African-Americans worked towards outlawing racial discrimination during the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement. Immense violence towards African-Americans occurred frequently and racism was openly practiced and preserved in law. Women and African-Americans possessed “inferior” positions in academia, social, and political circumstances. Racial segregation of access to provisions, amenities, services and opportunities were present nationwide. “In a decade where racism and sexism were rampant, the structure of society in the 1960s greatly restricted the potential of African-Americans and women.
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