Yes, to be clear, the "social-justice" "narrative" in the film is a relatively hamfisted and shallow one saying segregation is bad. A large portion of the film

Yes, to be clear, the "social-justice" "narrative" in the film is a relatively hamfisted and shallow one saying segregation is bad. A large portion of the film is a (good) story about the daily lives of black women in the 1950s, which is also by far the most fictionalized, and therefore editorialized, part. I mean, at the end of the day these women were working for an organization that was a mix of propaganda and military-industrial complex. The work they were doing is, within the film, contrasted to political radicalism of the period (much of which in turn we would consider run-of-the-mill today). "The point" it was trying to make is a straightforward one: NACA/NASA employed a shitload of black women, several of whom offered extraordinary contributions to the USA's space program. As if an ordinary contribution to such a major national myth weren't already noteworthy enough! To bring it back to Jean Sammet, because this is her thread: To the extent the film is political it's because we've forgotten or hidden the foundational contributions of women to so many aspects of science and technology, and likewise raise a disturbing aura of exceptionalism among those we do remember. Sammet did good work and shared her expertise in the field for many years, or as Booch put in the obit "Jean Sammet was a strong, consistent voice of integrity in [engineering discipline]." Would that any of us be so fortunately remembered!