Quickly realizing that those machines will put her and her colleagues - a room full of black women who also work as computers - out of a job, she knows what she must do: learn to code. And Vaughan, long barred from supervisory positions (even though she does the work of a supervisor) because of the color of her skin, begins to notice the giant IBM computers being installed on the campus. Meanwhile, Jackson is fighting to attend classes at an all-white school so she can earn a degree in engineering - which means getting the court to intervene. The whole room works long, long hours, but they can’t see their way around the problem. One day, Goble is assigned to work with Paul Stafford ( Jim Parsons), checking his math as he works with a team of (white, male) scientists supervised by Al Harrison ( Kevin Costner) who are working toward a way to put John Glenn ( Glen Powell) into orbit around the Earth. (The race to get to the moon ahead of Russia was such a priority that talent was valued at NASA wherever it was found, even in the brains of a group of people - black women - who might have been considered unemployable in the past.) Among Goble’s colleagues are Dorothy Vaughan ( Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson ( Janelle Monáe), both brilliant women with aspirations that extend far beyond the “Colored Computer” division. Jim Crow laws are still in effect in Virginia, but Johnson still managed to earn degrees in math and get a job in the “Colored Computer” division at NASA.
Henson), a widow and a “computer” at NASA who’s also a bit of a savant with numbers, is focused is on her job and her three daughters. Other changes are afoot in America too - the civil rights movement, for one - but Katherine Goble ( Taraji P. It’s NASA in the early 1960s, and the space race is on. Hidden Figures is set during the early days of the space race And most of all, it boasts three terrific leading ladies (and a few great supporting actors too). Hidden Figures blends contemporary conversations about race, gender, diversity in STEM fields, and patriotism in a thought-provoking historical package. The result is delightful, and surprisingly timely.
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