texnessa: sagansense: diversemovies: Some thoughts on Hidden Figures: Movie vs. Book I CANNOT URGE E
texnessa:sagansense:diversemovies:Some thoughts on Hidden Figures: Movie vs. BookI CANNOT URGE EVERYONE ENOUGH TO READ THIS BOOK. After reading, I was - and didn’t want to be - discouraged by the way the producers and screenwriters took on this project and compartmentalized it into a neat little NASA fan-package in order to shuffle people into the theaters. Granted, they drew much needed attention to this untold window into our past and indeed, the embarrassingly persistent and relevant racism which drowns our society today, BUT at the expense of shortchanging a film that - even before finishing the book - I recognized upon the commencement of the final end credits, could should have been much longer. All of the above says everything I’ve felt since. Borrow, purchase, read, and pay it forward. I haven’t seen the movie but I have read the book and highly recommend it as well as The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan which details the jobs that were created from scratch and mandated to be open to women and POC in rural Tennessee during WWII.“ The incredible story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history.The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project’s secret cities, it didn’t appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South.” -- source link
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