Social Injustice In African American Society

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Although there are still many social injustices in American society, Americans have actually made a lot of differences since the Declaration of independence. During this period, lots of Americans contributed to the gradual realization of ideas and beliefs of human rights and equality. Among those respectable people, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a significant leading African American sociologist, activist, author and editor, who was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868. He was the first African American to earn a doctor degree, and played an extraordinary role in the process of requiring for rights and equality for people of color as well as women.
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Du Bois insisted that African American should
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Although he found it hard to support women’s right-to-vote movement because the leaders of the movement did not endorse his fight for racial injustice, he wrote in his feminist essay “The Damnation of Women” to praise women’s dignity and value. Du Bois hoped people to marry within their race, but he felt it was women’s right to marry with anyone that they loved. According to Du Bois (1915), the statement that woman is weaker than man was ancient and wrong. Women had souls, feelings and opinions before and after marriage, and they had the rights to express their wills. There was not reason to only let the male to decide whether he was genius or imbecile. Du Bois stated that “the meaning of twentieth century is the freeing of the individual soul” as well as …show more content…
People still saw some problems like equality, races and genders in school, left over from the past. Multicultural education today should not only prepare students for their career, but also teach them life as Du Bois wrote in his book The Souls of Black Folks. Education need to teach students ways to think, as well as the correct value that all men are created equal. People of colors including African Americans are able to study with whites in the same school and the same classroom due to color-blindness, but Whites are afraid of being said to be racists and hence show excessive care and respect to Blacks in the front stage. They are unaware that their actions of talking racial jokes in back stage when they are in a “safe White space” are the indications that racism still a problem that still needs to be resolved