Black Arts Era Highlights
-WWII America was shattered during the decade of civil rights and white movements that polarized various populations of the US
-Kennedy was the youngest person and the only Roman Catholic ever elected as president
-The years brought disruptive civil rights and black power agitation national mourning for the deaths of slain leaders
-College student’s believed nonviolence direct action protest by African American was moral and effective means to secure constitional rights for African Americans
-By the time of the Greensboro sit on King was already acknowledged one of the most effective black civil rights leaders of all time
-In 1960 in North Carolina Woolworths lunch counters were desegregated
-Nonviolence civil disobedience, Christian love and moral suasion became the norms for sit in movements
-Southern policemen, National Guard forces and state troopers’ violently assaulted demonstrators with compete impunity
-The nation’s most charismatic representative was Minister Malcolm X Shabazz
-New York Commissioner of Police remarked the young minister (X) had “too much power for any one man”
-Black people in America, according to Black Nationalist of the 1960s had to redeem themselves
-Malcolm X’s fearless honesty was so admired by black nationalist at the time of his death they could not excuse any organization that might have been compunctious his murder
-Bull Conner turned fire hose and police dogs on nonviolent demonstrators
-Organizations such as CORE and SNCC transformed themselves overnight into stridently revolutionary coders
-Police forces of Major Daley mercilessly clubbed hundred of chanting demonstrators under the recording television camera
-Movement is collective effort to bring about fundamental change
-Black power movement were delivered to inspiring mass congregations with the word
-Poetry was the creative genre that saw the accomplished work by black artist of the sixties
-Poetry suited to the felt immediacy of struggle characteristic of black arts and black power advocates
-African American poetical forms have provided expressive outlets for people who would not afford a great American novel or full length drama
-Kennedy was the youngest person and the only Roman Catholic ever elected as president
-The years brought disruptive civil rights and black power agitation national mourning for the deaths of slain leaders
-College student’s believed nonviolence direct action protest by African American was moral and effective means to secure constitional rights for African Americans
-By the time of the Greensboro sit on King was already acknowledged one of the most effective black civil rights leaders of all time
-In 1960 in North Carolina Woolworths lunch counters were desegregated
-Nonviolence civil disobedience, Christian love and moral suasion became the norms for sit in movements
-Southern policemen, National Guard forces and state troopers’ violently assaulted demonstrators with compete impunity
-The nation’s most charismatic representative was Minister Malcolm X Shabazz
-New York Commissioner of Police remarked the young minister (X) had “too much power for any one man”
-Black people in America, according to Black Nationalist of the 1960s had to redeem themselves
-Malcolm X’s fearless honesty was so admired by black nationalist at the time of his death they could not excuse any organization that might have been compunctious his murder
-Bull Conner turned fire hose and police dogs on nonviolent demonstrators
-Organizations such as CORE and SNCC transformed themselves overnight into stridently revolutionary coders
-Police forces of Major Daley mercilessly clubbed hundred of chanting demonstrators under the recording television camera
-Movement is collective effort to bring about fundamental change
-Black power movement were delivered to inspiring mass congregations with the word
-Poetry was the creative genre that saw the accomplished work by black artist of the sixties
-Poetry suited to the felt immediacy of struggle characteristic of black arts and black power advocates
-African American poetical forms have provided expressive outlets for people who would not afford a great American novel or full length drama