Nonsense. The movie invented fake racism to make white people look bad. There were no segregated bathrooms where these women worked. Their role was very minor, hundreds of other low level people had the same jobs. The movie absurdly claims these women had a major role in planning the mission and even corrected the white men who were the real brains behind the operation. None of these scenes happened in real life.
It’s sad that so many older conservatives don’t understand what cultural marxist propaganda is. They don’t even recognize it when they see it.
The men they corrected were engineers. It was not uncommon for engineers to rely on human computers. Engineers essentially came up with the problem and the human computers did the mathematics. It wasn’t that they corrected them, they showed them the solutions to the problem.
Our first satellites literally had physicists and astronomers standing over the women or in many instances, woman who did the calculations to verify they had achieved orbit. See the book Rocket Girls.
Johnson did confirm the IBM computer results for Glenn’s flight. Mechanical computers were not reliable and the results were checked by hand. This was common until the late 60s.
Many of the departments they worked in were contract departments, but in the 40s and 50s in Virginia facilities were segregated. Black women had their own department from which they were assigned. the bathrooms in Virginia were segregated. The pentagon was built with separate facilities and was not desegregated until 48 (The book starts in the early forties so many of the events are compressed in time. In the early forties they were working on missiles, airplanes, sound barrier, etc at the Virginia facility). I can’t remember when the NACA got rid of segregated bathrooms but it was after 48.
I spent summers in the southeast, late 60s early 70s, southeast GA northeast Fl. You would not want to be a Black person in that area during that time. It made quite an impression on me.
Read rocket girls, their role was not minor.