African-American Equality

The issue of racial discrimination in the America has always existed in this society. After the Civil Rights Movement, the American governments accepted African-Americans in the law to obtain equal status with White-Americans. But this equality is only formal because the African-American in society and life are still subject to a lot of unequal treatment. African-Americans never stopped fighting for real freedom and equality in their life, but their efforts to fight also gave them a lot of suffering and hurting. Margaret Walker's "For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney" and James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son", both argued about the reform movement of African-Americans equality and the view of White-Americans treatment …show more content…
In Walker's "For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney", three students of Civil Rights Movement were murdered by Ku Klux Klan in order to fight for social equal rights. Ku Klux Klan was a private xenophobic group that pursues white supremacy and discriminates against the colored doctrine movement. In Walker‘s text, “without beauty...they have killed these three. they have killed them for me."(Walker, p.128). This quote shows where separators strongly go against that African-Americans can vote, and lead them to kill three innocent civil rights workers. The problem of this white opposition to black folks is also shown in Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son", he uses autobiographical manner to described his painful experience in this society. In the society of his age, the African-American had equal rights because his father "was of the first generation of free men."(Baldwin, p.144). It also shows that while the law gives African-Americans the right to equal to White-Americans, the white man's attitude towards black folks and behavior has not improved altogether. Thus, it also makes African-Americans realized that in American society, their skin color makes the White-Americans disgust, exclusion, and other negative