Racial discrimination is a serious problem in our society, but was even worse of a problem in the 1950’s. Discrimination against African Americans in the 1950’s caused different struggles such as lack of education and lack of income, even all the way down to informed consent, or better yet the lack of. African Americans faced everyday struggles because of these things like not being able to get a good education because they were “different” and not having good jobs so they weren’t able to have the income they needed to survive like normal people, even having to go to doctors where they didn’t get the care they deserved and things were done to them without their knowledge or consent because they were again considered “different”. Although this
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If life for Black’s in the 1950’s were better than it was and they had the opportunity to receive a more valuable education, things in society in the 1950’s and even now would have been much different, better even. I strongly believe that if life was better and a different type of education was provided, which would make life back then better for them, maybe they wouldn’t be so resentful in the world today. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta goes to the doctor for an exam and they make her sign a type of consent form that she, not having the education that a white person would, didn’t understand (Skloot)(30). Also in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deborah, who is one of Henrietta’s daughters, delivers a speech in which she says “Excuse me if I mispronouncing a word, but I have problems and I didn’t get the right teaching when I was coming up in school. I was not even allowed to have a hearing aid until after I was grown. But I’m not ashamed of it.” (Skloot)(220). This shows that life in the 1950’s was much different than it is today. In the 1950’s the Supreme Court issued two directives, one was that blacks and poor schools with only three classrooms and three teachers, they demanded that they be able to go to school with the whites (Trueman). The other was that the graduate school in Oklahoma, would now include blacks just like they did whites and everyone would get the same treatment
If life for Black’s in the 1950’s were better than it was and they had the opportunity to receive a more valuable education, things in society in the 1950’s and even now would have been much different, better even. I strongly believe that if life was better and a different type of education was provided, which would make life back then better for them, maybe they wouldn’t be so resentful in the world today. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta goes to the doctor for an exam and they make her sign a type of consent form that she, not having the education that a white person would, didn’t understand (Skloot)(30). Also in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Deborah, who is one of Henrietta’s daughters, delivers a speech in which she says “Excuse me if I mispronouncing a word, but I have problems and I didn’t get the right teaching when I was coming up in school. I was not even allowed to have a hearing aid until after I was grown. But I’m not ashamed of it.” (Skloot)(220). This shows that life in the 1950’s was much different than it is today. In the 1950’s the Supreme Court issued two directives, one was that blacks and poor schools with only three classrooms and three teachers, they demanded that they be able to go to school with the whites (Trueman). The other was that the graduate school in Oklahoma, would now include blacks just like they did whites and everyone would get the same treatment