BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT

Malcolm Williams

The Black Arts Movement And Africa

In the 1960s the united states was on the verge of change. Black Americans were realizing life was improving as resources became available and new doors were beginning to open. This led blacks to reinvent themselves and return to their cultural roots. Their objective was not to replicate the white society but to look to Africa for inspiration and wisdom.

One of the pioneers of the Black Arts Movement Larry Neal

Key writers in the black Arts Movement

Amiri Baraka Gwedolyn brooks Larry Neal Mari Evans Hoyt Fuller John Alfred Williams Etheridge Knight

Artists of the Black Arts Movement

Emory Douglas was revolutinary artist who

Painter Lois Mailou Jones and John Biggers

Emory Douglass This picture

represents black panthers a volatile group who tried to stop police butality in the 1960s after countless crimes against blacks.

More Emory Douglas

“This is talking about how people in the movement were demonized. People always tried to call them common criminals and thugs. This artwork is contradicting that. He’s saying I’m a liberator, a freedom fighter.”

– Emory Douglas, August 18, 2007.

http://www.moca-la.org/emorydouglas/

Louis mailou Jones One of her

more famous pictures during the black arts movement.

Pictures of the black Arts movement

John Biggers pictures of slavery.

More John Biggers Depicting

slavery

John Biggers

Music in the black Arts Movements

Music in the black arts movement was a little different from the Harlem Renaissance. Blacks riverted back to their roots and tried to separate themselves from their white counterparts.

Malcolm X and The Nation of Islam

Malcolm X was born El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.

He was sent to prison for eight to ten years in prison where he became a member of the nation of Islam.

Was one of the greatest and most influential African American’s.

The Civil Rights Movement The political leader during the majority of this

era was John F. Kennedy. The Black Power movements dissolved from

energetic idealism and communal hopefulness. In 1960, four black college students staged a sit-

in, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Despite the 1968 Civil Rights Acts and the 1965

Voting Right Act, the U.S. government repeatedly refused to enforce the laws.

Works cited The Norton Anthology, African American

Literature Pages 1831-1849 http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimelin

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