Black Arts Movement - Key Writers and Thinkers of This Movement

Key Writers and Thinkers of This Movement

  • Maya Angelou
  • Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones)
  • Jean Carey Bond
  • Walter Bowe
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Ed Bullins
  • Steve Cannon
  • Harold Cruse
  • Tom Dent
  • Ray Durem
  • Hoyt W. Fuller
  • Addison Gayle
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Rosa Guy
  • Lorraine Hansberry
  • Al Haynes
  • David Henderson
  • Calvin Hicks
  • Marvin X (known as Marvin Jackson)
  • Wadsworth Jarrell, artist
  • Ron Karenga
  • Adrienne Kennedy
  • Keorapetse "Willie" Kgositsile
  • John O. Killens
  • Etheridge Knight
  • Robert MacBeth
  • Haki Madhubuti
  • Larry Neal
  • Yusef Rahman
  • Sonia Sanchez
  • Barbara Ann Teer
  • Lorenzo Thomas
  • Askia M. TourĂ©

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