Nelson Mandela once said, "We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination." In our society today, discrimination continues to exist but it was not what it once was. Discrimination to race, gender, and social class is common, but after the Civil Rights Movement all people in the US have the same freedoms as one another. Before the Civil Rights Movement, colored and white people had separate hospitals, schools and drinking fountains, which no longer exist today. In the novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, written by Rebecca Skloot, there are many reoccurring social justice issues, but the three most prominent issues are of the inequalities are race, class, and lack of education. In the novel, Henrietta was a black women, who had no education due to the fact that she was raised in a lower class family. When Henrietta went to receive treatment for her cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she was put in the wing of the hospital that was for color people. According to the book, “… Hopkins, which did treat colored patients, segregated them in colored wards, and had colored only fountains.” Henrietta received treatment for her cancer but died due to how many tumors there were inside of her and the lack of technology. Without her knowledge, however, samples of her cervical cancer were taken and used for experimentation. Her family was unaware of what was happening until many years later, and due to their lack of education as well, they could not completely understand and comprehend what was happening to their mother.
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