The book of the dead written by Muriel Rukeyser responded to the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history, the Gauley tunnel tragedy. This event killed hundreds of workers, most of them African  American, but their families didn't get corresponding compensation or even forgotten. Through the investigation of the survivors and the site of the accident, as well as the combination of the poem of the book of the dead, Rukeyser revealed the phenomenon that the bourgeoisie severely struck the workers. In that cases, we can figure out that racial discrimination is still a ubiquitous social problem. Even though the government departments have repeatedly proposed to eliminate racial discrimination, I think some ineradicable thoughts cannot be changed in a short time.