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The Black Arts Movement Research Paper

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Elizabeth Grey
April 20, 2018
ENG 254
Donna Levy
Paper Two

Black Art consisted of African American artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and authors that were governmentally inspired to arise in the rouse of the Black Arts Movement. The movement which took place during the 1960s and 1970s was a creative development that became center stage and demanded gradual social change activity of its advocates which promoted the principles of Black Power. The Black Arts Movement was led by Amiri Baraka who was considered the main originator and driving influence of the crusade. Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones was a publisher, music critic, author, and poet. He was the greatest respected and extensively published Black writer of his …show more content…

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