The article focuses on the works of writers Mark Twain and Paul Laurence Dunbar that has influenced the Americans' mind about racial discrimination and slavery in the U.S. It demonstrates Twain's and Dunbar's awareness of both the realities of slavery and the realities of African Americans' oppression by white Americans. The writers have used poems and fictitious stories to break the racial discrimination trend which paved way to African American's civil rights.
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