Black Arts Movement Research Paper

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The Black Arts Movement started in 1965 and ended in 1975, the Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a literary movement that related back to the construction of Black Power. The movement included politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. The poet Imamu Amiri Baraka is widely considered to be the father of the Black Arts Movement to understand the Black Arts Movement one must understand who Amiri Baraka was, born Everett Leroi Jones on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey he developed an interest in poetry and jazz in high school and would graduate and attend Rutgers University but transferred because of cultural dislocation to Howard University where he would