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Examples Of Racial Inequalities In The Film 'Hidden Figures'

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There are many example of racial inequalities in the film “Hidden Figures”. Most of them are on the three main female African American workers. The majority of the racism we see is on the main character, Katherine Johnson. She works for NASA in a mostly all-white workspace. She is the smartest mind there and is even smarter than a computer. There are many types of things that white people were given that African-Americans who worked just as hard did not get at all. There were no reasons for them to be treated differently but they still were simply for the color of her skin.

One of the many inequalities she faces is at in the movie is when she asks for the bathroom, and has to go really far away to find one labeled “Colored”. She had to run

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