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Examples Of Racism In Hidden Figures

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Hidden Figures is an inordinate movie that gives us the lesson that everybody has the potential to do great things if they work hard towards those things. In this movie, an exceptional girl named Katherine is given the chance to go to an extraordinary school so that she can get the education that she needs to fulfill her dream and become an engineer at NASA. The movie showcases the struggles, hard-work, and discrimination that she has to go through while working at NASA. Although some examples of racism are more easily noticeable than others in the movie, all of them show that many Americans did not particularly approve of African-Americans in the mid-1900s. One example of racism is shown very early in the movie, when the women have to deal with the …show more content…

Although this is shown in almost half of the movie, Katherine’s director fixes this problem by taking off the signs in front of the bathrooms that define who the bathrooms are for. In addition to those examples, another easily noticeable example of racism in Hidden Figures is seen when Dorothy is denied the job to be the supervisor of the computing group that she is working in even though she fulfills the duties of a supervisor. After Vivian Michael, who decides who gets which job in the movie, learns that Dorothy is doing a lot with the IBM computers that NASA gets in the movie, she gives Dorothy the application for being the supervisor and this problem is also fixed. Hidden Figures also shows that many African-American people chose to accept racism as their way of life and chose not to take any action against it. I think this is the case in Hidden Figures because in the movie, all of the women have a fairly high position and they think that if they try to rebel against racism and try to stop it, they might lose their jobs and possibly hurt their current

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