Your employment and career path options would be limited through no fault of your own but rather lack of opportunity. You could pretty much forget about college. If you were an average student and/or your family or teachers didn’t have the means to send you to school in another town, your education would have ended in the eighth grade. If this was the only school available in the area just imagine how much other kids in the area were being short-changed with regards to their education. Katherine wasn’t moving for some special educational opportunity but simply because there was no local high school for Black students. And also, this is not some special magnate or boarding school but a seemingly regular degular high school. It’s important to note that this is not a college we’re talking about but rather a high school. Wanting to encourage the obvious potential in the child her teachers pool their resources to raise the funds needed for the move. The school is explained as being some distance away and requires Katherine to move to attend. There’s a moment in this scene where Katherine is still a rather small child and she stands at the front of a class filled with some rather grown looking folks (though they’re most likely high school students). With the help of teachers, she is able to attend a high school that is willing to accept her early. Henson) showing great promise of being a gifted mathematician as a child.
Hidden Figures begins with Katherine Goble (Taraji P. Pushing against racism and sexism, these three women would emerge as pioneers in the S.T.E.M. The film tells the story of three Black women who used their talents in mathematics and engineering to aid in America’s quest to successfully put an astronaut into orbit and safely return him to Earth. Hidden Figures is a 2016 movie adapted from Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.
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