In a place with a high-end atmosphere like NASA, Catherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, three intelligent, hardworking and elegant black women are destined to make waves. Their contribution is no less than that of any white man, and no less than any man, but we know very little about them until the film turned out.
This is a white world, and the discrimination against blacks is so obvious.
To go to the toilet, Catherine can only go to the colored toilets, and must run to the West Campus half a mile away, because apart from the West Campus, there are no colored toilets in any other buildings in NASA;
for coffee, Catherine is not allowed to touch The coffee pots used by white people can only use the special coffee pots with "COLORED";
when the astronauts are welcomed, the white and black are clearly divided into two camps;
when borrowing books, Dorothy is required to go to people of color Borrowing from the library area;
in the West Campus, Dorothy is doing supervisory work, but he can’t get the corresponding title and compensation;
applying for the engineer training program, it’s not enough for Mary to have the same bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physical sciences as all engineers. To get more advanced curriculum expansion, but the school that can attend is a white school, and blacks cannot go; and so on
, there are more discriminatory words and eyes secretly and secretly.
[I’m just hehe, white people label black people as COLORED, aren’t they white as COLORED? ]
This is a man’s world, and discrimination against women is equally obvious.
In the space agency, 90% are male workers;
Catherine can’t write her name on the computer briefings that Catherine does; at the
briefing meeting, Catherine is rejected outside the gate because “there is no provision for women to participate in the briefing”;
Mary Through the fight with the judge, I got the qualification to go to night school in that school, but the class was all male; etc.
The double discrimination between race and gender can be conceivable.
But with the spirit of self-improvement, and the unique toughness of women, they survived forbearingly, and even more gracefully.
There are two stages that impressed me deeply:
First, when the space agency introduced IBM, Dorothy smelled of danger, but after a little panic, she devoted herself to self-learning programming and successfully started the white man. The big machine that can't be started, not only let itself become soaring, but the first time she taught her black girls to program, and led them to a new field.
This forbearance and demeanor is admirable.
In another scene, Dorothy brought two children to borrow books. The white librarian said directly and badly, and the security guard waved. Dorothy spoke righteously, without any unreasonable harassment. She straightened her back in a straight suit, elegant and bold.
Except for Dorothy,
Mary’s phrase "I can’t change my skin color, so I have no choice but to be the first person."
Catherine broke through layers of “doors”, from the West Campus to the Space Working Group to the direct briefing meeting. From the room to the launch control room of the spacecraft, it's all moving.
[Here I have to mention Bole Harrison. He saw Catherine's difference, knocked off her tags one by one, and opened doors. Later, Catherine ran over half of the space agency to the control room holding the file. When she was shut out with a "bang", she was stupid, a little surprised, a little surprised, and a little bit helpless and self-deprecating. Fortunately... Harrison opened the door behind her and handed out the work permit. 】The
film has big events and more details. I was deeply shocked and moved by them.
After reading it, I only thought of two words to describe them: great.
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