The article vividly portrays the history of the problems and sufferings of the Blacks in America. The Blacks or the Afro-Americans were brought from their native land of Africa to America as slaves by the Europeans. They were treated in a dastardly manner by their masters. The Afro-Americans bitterly say that their manhood and womanhood were taken away by the Whites in exchange for the Bible. Their psyche was so much hurt that they suspected the Whites when they offered a hand shake towards integration. They wished to remain a separate ethnic entity like the Jews or the Chinese. They demanded to be recognized as a separate group with the rights to live with dignity and self-respect. Till the 18th century they had only oral literature. They started their written literature only in the second half of the 18th century. Poets like Phyllis Wheatley and dramatists like Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry reflected their sentiments and emotions through their writings.