African Americans may trace their genealogy back to ancient Africa when Egyptians and Hebrews mingled with indigenous people to develop one of the earliest documented black cultures, also African-Americans have played a crucial role in the growth and development of the nation from the very beginning of their presence in the United States. African-American contributions to American history are essential for understanding the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and everything that came before. Nobody should be surprised to discover that African-Americans are descended from slaves taken against their will to the New World by white European immigrants.
This is a reality that has been transmitted from generation to generation. However, the United States of America was not always the multicultural melting point that it is today; in fact, when it was created, it was not even called America.
Acceptance of the term "negro" is indicative of the extent to which slaves and people of African descent were repressed and spiritually shattered as a result of their marginalization, of their displacement from the new center to the periphery of value and meaning. As a result, according to the words of a twentieth-century scholar, "African Americans are nameless, landless, and devoid of a language and culture of their own."