Who Said You Can't African American Women In Science

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Who Said You Can't African American Women In Science Documentary movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: The film  depicts eight African American Women in Science of the past and present.  Director : Gisele Haralson

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00:00 (soft music)

00:02 - Came here with very humble beginnings.

00:12 I was here as an immigrant, lived in a homeless shelter.

00:17 And here I am, the only Afro-American cardiologist

00:21 in Louisiana right now that owns her own practice.

00:25 - Things like I never did know they make

00:29 black nurseries.

00:31 I said, "Oh yeah, they make them."

00:32 - I just sat on the white side of the cafeteria.

00:36 This time there was a little window there

00:40 where black people had to go and order their meals,

00:45 order their tray.

00:46 We could not sit in the cafeteria

00:48 or go through the line and choose.

00:50 You had to tell them what you want.

00:52 And then there was a very small area

00:54 that blacks were allowed to sit in.

00:58 - Today's students, I see that the girls

01:03 seem to grasp it faster and they embrace it.

01:07 They want to know more, they're more engaged.

01:12 I see, I feel that the reason that the area

01:17 is so male dominated is because men were allowed

01:21 to study and to go on and they got the jobs.

01:25 I don't think that women were ever not interested.

01:28 They just seemed to follow what society

01:31 thought was their place.

01:32 - If you're gonna go into science or engineering,

01:35 you need to get as much math as possible

01:38 because those are math related fields.

01:41 And see with me, I told you I got my first degree

01:43 and I didn't do that well because I didn't realize

01:46 at the time that my math was my strong point.

01:50 'Cause I knew as a child, math always came easy to me.

01:53 Learning always came easy to me, you know.

01:55 And I was just able to really, I would tell young people,

01:59 get as much math as you can, get into some STEM program,

02:03 take as much algebra, trigonometry as you can

02:06 to get that background.

02:07 And that would help you to be able to go

02:09 into any science or engineering field.

02:11 - How do we change the face of STEM?

02:14 We change the face of STEM by showing others

02:17 that all of us can do STEM.

02:21 I often wonder who says you can't.

02:23 There are so many people saying that we can't.

02:26 And as blacks and those of us that are in STEM,

02:29 we know that you can.

02:31 It may be hard, there may be plenty of doors

02:33 that are closed on you, but we know that you can.

02:37 (gentle music)

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