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Hip hop and social injustice - Social Injustice In American History
=== Social Injustice in American History starts from the very beginning from when America was first discovered in1492 the year Columbus set sail. Once they discovered America they discovered something else, a new idea idea called "race". Colonialism was the first social injustice to happen in American History. Colonialism was a geographical project that consisted of conquering other people, settling in foreign lands and extracting natural resources. Later in American History beginning in the 17th century African men, women and children were kidnapped and were brought to the Americas under horrible conditions where it is believed that more than 2 million Africans died on the voyage to America. Slavery mainly consisted of labor in the fields while a select few did domestic work around the owners home. It wasnt until 1863 that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that would put a end to slavery. These men, women and children were discriminated against and treated very poorly. Discrimination is defined as "treatment on the basis of inadequately justified factors other than race that disadvantages a racial group". After Slavery though things didn't get much better for Black people. Almost immediately they were segregated from the whites while not having a lot of say in the government because of literacy tests and taxes and the grandfather clause which stated that if your grandfather could vote than you don't have to take the literacy tests or pay the tax. After many years of hard fought political battles for black people in 1964 the civil rights act of 1964 was passed which made it illegal to discriminate against a person because of their color and it also ended segregation. Now modern era social injustices include employment discrimination amongst women, police brutality amongst minorities and educational inequality with poor areas of the United States. ===