African Americans During The Civil War - 796 Words

Socially, politically, economically, African Americans were kept out of society. And they had to scratch and bite to get whatever advantages they could. African Americans were the main labor force; back then black children are forced to work rather than go to school. African Americans have for the most part lost whatever political situation they had had as a result of Reconstruction. And it was done very brutally and it was done very systematically. Another issue was in order to make sure that African Americans did not attempt to assert themselves in any way, whether it was voting, whether it was trying to buy land, the white South resorted to terrorism. And that terrorism which was a legacy that never stopped from the time of the Civil†¦show more content†¦His human pity was the foundation that made all this possible. If we must die is about losing nobly. who wants to die losing battle with no pride most of all without dignity but if we must go we may as well go down fight ing and be honored with dignity afterwards instead of losing everything and be forgotten without a purpose give them something to talk about remember us by. The poem uses quatrains iambic pentameter in majority of the poem. It seems to be conditional to begin each sentence in the octave There is an extended simile where African Americans are being compared to hogs. He calls on them to fight back even though they have no chance of winning. The poem uses this simile to show how the brutality and un-human nature of the attacks on African Americans were. Claude MacKaye’s uses a simile to show how he doesn t want to end up beaten and battered like a wild animal no one will care for nor remember in the line If we must die-let it not be like hogs† (Claude McKay). (1919-1940) An unspeakable and distasteful rise in hate crime, dreadful race riots, and overall abominable violence towards the African American communities. The struggles of African Americans in the United States, particularly prejudices that are often encountered. The riots had wrought havoc in the country and were characterized by savage acts, massacres, tragedy countless and unjustifiable deaths of African American people. Greatly cussing of GOD and