The fight for freedom and equality has been fought for many decades throughout U.S. History. For black people this fight was not only fought to gain equality, but also to allow a change in politics, economically, and aesthetically. The domination of white superiority has bleed itself into every fold of United States. While the country and white supremacy was being challenged with the Civil Rights Movement a silent new movement was about to arise, and from this emerged a social movement that shook the world and turned minds around, giving way to a new movement that brought with it new state of being, new since of power and unity. The Black Arts movement is a period in history of unapologetic empowerment of the black people creativity, beginning in the 1960’s and continuing through much of the 1970s. The movement is also known for its connection with The Black Power Movement, as their spiritual sister. The movement noticed the idea of two culturally different Americas: one black and one white. Where for black people it was forced upon them to learn white culture and assimilate into it, and black culture was never respected or accepted. …show more content…
The Black Art Movement created beautiful art work that represented specifically the Black Aesthetic, and these black artists created for the black audiences; “FOR US, BY US”. The movement became this monument that the black community to reinvent the inferior or self-hating mindset black Americans had of themselves, and the Black Aesthetic is believed to be an important component of the economic, political, and cultural empowerment of the Black