Answer:
the answer for this question is A
1. African Americans faced discrimination.
2. Encouraged a revolutionary style of art.
3. Creating an identity for African Americans
4. It provided African Americans an opportunity to create a new identity by using art to express their feelings and experiences.
5. (Paragraph 6)
Explanation:
Baldwin talks of a "disease" which afflicts black Americans and can wreck race relations and creating a "rage in the blood" so he is using the "disease" as a metaphor for probably the rage that black Americans have for experiencing the inequalities of life in the US especially in the 1960's when the civil rights movement was so strong and segregation was so strongly practiced in the South still.