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I don’t think it was anti white at all. I’m certain you are not saying that the treatment of Blacks in the south from the 40s through the 60s was exemplary.

These women did work in the departments the book claims. I have read other books on the subjects and many women did work in those departments throughout the US. I just finished a book about the women who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, mostly white but a few Blacks. By my reading on the subject, they did not employ any slouches in any of these departments. Many of these women had impressive mathematical minds. It is an impressive achievement for anyone to get an advanced degree in mathematics, particularly a woman during the period of 40-70.

Check this woman out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
Actress Hedy Lamarr was a mathematician who worked to help break codes.
Larry Mondello’s mother on Leave It to Beaver, along with her real life husband, developed test equipment for the Manhattan project as well as the fuses for those atomic bombs
granted, these women are not Black,but their accomplishments are impressive. The Black women who worked along side of them were equally as impressive. There is a lot written about the female mathematicians that worked in code breaking who were forbidden to discuss their work because of its nature who were thought by their family to have contributed nothing to the war effort because they could not discuss what they did. People at JPL had the same problems.

Furthermore, the contributions of the Muskegee Airman and the Nisei soldiers in Europe is legendary. They are among the most highly decorated and successful units. If your complaint is movies embellish, well no kidding. It is a movie not a documentary.