Rights were increasing for white Americans.
A safe and secure environment
They were similar because they had developed cities and complex governments
It showed the american view of what had happened during the massacre?
In the three times that Dunbar uses the phrase "<em>We wear the mask</em>" (first to introduce the main idea and at the end of the next two stanzas), he used it to narrate and describe the common experiences that African-Americans share about their daily lives in a predominantly white society. These experiences are led by the feelings and thoughts that African-Americans have to hide by “<em>wearing the mask.</em>”
