African-American culture is one of the most diverse and undervalued cultural groups in the world. They have faced great adversity, but still are pioneers in engineering, literacy, athletics, inventing, and medicine. Even with these amazing accomplishments, African Americans, Blacks, still do not receive acclamation. Blacks have faced enslavement, racism, segregation, and degradation, yet have accomplished impeccable things for the enrichment of society. People like Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Langston Hughes have faced a lot of these atrocities yet, did not let it hinder their literary creativity. They chose to spread the word about the injustice that plagues Blacks in America. Many people only know of Maya Angelou as a writer and a poet
