![]() Henson plays Katherine Johnson, a highly skilled African-American mathematician working at NASA. In the 1960s space race to the moon, Taraji P. ![]() It was a huge step forward in letting women into traditionally male-dominated roles. After the league reached huge successes, society realized that women were perfectly capable of playing professional sports. Most of the women on these teams came from farm homes and some were even illiterate. They were also forced to play in skirts instead of more suitable sports clothing. At first, there was a lot of pushback because women were seen as too frail for such a sport. But a few courageous women decided to pick things up. Amidst WWII, Major League Baseball had basically come to a halt. The historical context: Women’s rights were still in process in the 1940s and 1950s USA. There’s just one problem though: women aren’t allowed to play Major League Baseball and they seek to change that. Set in the Northwest US during WWII, a new group of women decided to take things into their own hands to keep major league baseball alive while the majority of men are at war. Leading actors Tom Hanks and Geena Davis play in the movie A League of Their Own. The Revolutionary War officially began in 1775 with small battles in Lexington and Concord of which these rebels launched a full-scale war for independence that lasted until 1783. American colonists grew more and more tired of increasingly high tax payments from the British (known as redcoats) and their cruel punishments when those taxes couldn’t be paid. The historical context: While the US began as 13 British colonies, that was put to an end with the Revolutionary War with the birth of a new nation known as the United States of America. ![]() After British soldiers burn his house down, he becomes motivated to join the rebellion against England and unfortunately loses his son in the process. The main character, Benjamin Martin, a former war hero, has ignored the growing tensions between the colonial US and Great Britain until it shows up on the doorstep of his plantation. Leading actors Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger star in the Patriot, a story set in colonial South Carolina in 1776 amidst the Revolutionary War. This led to the outbreak of the Civil War that lasted from 1861 to 1863. Growing abolitionist sentiment hit its peak with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and within a mere three months, 7 Southern states had succeeded from the US. The US was split between the North (anti-slavery) and South (pro-slavery), of which these black and white views are clearly portrayed in 12 Years a Slave. The years leading up to the Civil War were some of the most tumultuous times in the history of the country. By 1761, slavery had hit an all time high. The historical context: The US had a history of slavery dating back 400 years, even before it was established as an independent country. He spent 12 years working on plantations until he met a Canadian abolitionist and was able to find freedom and reconvene with his family. Later on, he was abducted and forced into slavery in 1841 in Louisiana. Prior to enslavement, he was living freely in New York with his beloved wife and children. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Michael Fassbender, this movie follows the true story of the main character, Solomon Northrup, an enslaved Black man in the pre-Civil War US.
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