America Without African Americans

In this essay I will demonstrate why America would not be America without African Americans. African Americans contributed a lot to America and is a main factor of all that is going on in America to this day. Without black people America would not be. Like it or not African Americans helped with building this famous nation. W.E.B. Dubois asked, “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” Put the question in our head of what would America be without its black people? How will our world change? Without the bravery and the outgoing African Americans we had back then America would not have the originality it has now. Music such as jazz, poetry, and also the traffic light would not have been invented if it was not for African Americans.
In today’s society it is amazing to see
No matter seeing all the usefulness and benefits of having African Americans around. Till this day African Americans are still being treated as if they are second class citizen and it is disgusting. Caucasian’s with higher power mistreated African Americans due to their ignorant ways. In 1890 was when the Color line era began. The Color line was the segregation of races in the South. White people in control and black people being treated as lesser human being. It was when white democrats, the southern state and the local government. With them in charge they that overturned the political and social gains that black had made in progression after the Civil War. Black people did nothing but sit there and accept their fate in the South. With them losing their rights to vote and becoming second class human being as if other people are better just because of their skin color. White people were the ones sin charged, holding the guns, and had all the power. They had the law behind on their side. In the text The Color Line in the Era of Segregation it states “A variety of ingenious