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What was the writers’ organization which included among others, Maya Angelou, Rosa Guy and Sarah Wright that focused more on fiction than on poetry?
1. Night Freedom
2. Harlem’s Writers’ Guild
3. Umbra
4. Freedomways
Harlem’s Writers’ Guild
Although founded in 1950, The Harlem’s Writers’ Guild, started by John O. Killens was an active contributor to the Black Arts Movement and in 1977 was recognized by the United Nations Society of Writers.
What Black Arts writer proclaimed in an essay entitled, "The Black Arts Movement," that the Black Arts was the "aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power?"
1. Bobby Seal
2. Larry Neal
3. Nikki Giovanni
4. Mari Evans
Larry Neal
Larry Neal in his 1968 essay, The Black Arts Movement, was influential in defining and describing the relationship of the Black Arts Movement to the radical Black Power Movement.
One of the primary reasons for the decline of the Black Arts Movement was the shift of a number of figures from Black Nationalism to what political philosophy?
1. Marxism
2. Confucianism
3. Communism
4. Utilitarianism
Marxism
Amiri Baraka is recognized as founder of the Black Arts Movement during the 60s and by the mid-70s his political movement to Marxism started the demise of that same movement.
What was the name of the publishing company started by poet Dudley Randall in Detroit, Michigan?
1. Third World Press
2. Broadside Press
3. Africa World Press
4. New World Press
Broadside Press
In 1965, Dudley Randall started the pioneering Broadside Press, which published many of the revolutionary writers of the era.
The African American holiday, Kwanzaa, was created in the midst of the Black Arts Movement by whom?
1. Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture
2. Bobby Seale
3. Maulana Ron Karenga
4. Amiri Barak
Maulana Ron Karenga
Maulana Ron Karenga was an African-American professor of Africana studies, an activist and author who created the African inspired holiday, Kwanzaa, in 1966.
The assassination of what important figure is often said to have launched the Black Arts Movement?
1. Malcolm X
2. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Medgar Evers
4. Emmitt Till
Malcom X
The assassination of Black nationalist figure, Malcolm X, in 1965 is often associated with the beginning of both the Black Arts and Black Power Movements.
What is the largest independently owned Black press in the country and was highly instrumental during the Black Arts Movement in pushing to the fore, many revolutionary writers of the period?
1. Black Arts Press
2. African World Press
3. Broadside Press
4. Third World Press
Third World Press
Third World Press, started by Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers and Johari Amini, was critical to the Black Arts movement and beyond.
Which of the following was NOT a publisher of African American creative works during the era of the Black Arts Movement?
1. New Black World Press
2. Lotus Press
3. Third World Press
4. Broadside Press
New Black World Press
The New Black World Press was NOT a publisher during the period of the Black Arts Movement; Broadside Press was started by Dudley Randall, Third World Press, by Haki Madubuti and Lotus Press by Naomi Long Madgett.
What was the name of the Revolutionary Black theatre company initiated by Amiri Baraka?
1. NYC Black Aesthetic
2. The Black Community Theatre
3. The People’s Theatre of NYC
4. The Black Arts Repertory Theatre
The Black Arts Repertory Theatre
The Black Arts Repertory Theatre of Harlem was started in 1965 by Amiri Baraka and is said to have formally established the Black Arts Movement.
What woman writer’s play, also called a choreopoem, was published in 1977 and became an instant classic earning an Obie Award as well as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominations?
1. Carolyn Rogers
2. Sharon Strange
3. Ntozake Shange
4. Jayne Cortez
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, born Paulette Williams, authored a host of poems and plays during her writing career and won numerous awards, but her choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, was the sustaining work performed by an ensemble of seven African American women. It is comprised of monologues and poetry that highlights the pain and struggle Black women face in American.
In 1965, provocative poet and playwright, LeRoi Jones, changed his name to what?
1. Omar Baraka
2. Obama Baraka
3. Imamu Amiri Baraka
4. Amina Baraka
Imamu Amiri Baraka
In 1965, LeRoi Jones changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka, which means “Blessed Spiritual Leader”; he then dropped the spiritual title Imamu when he became a Marxist Leninist in 1974.
Who was the scholar who stated that the Black Arts Movement was the “shortest and least successful' movement in African American cultural history?"
1. Eugene Redmond
2. Ta-Nehisi Coates
3. Hoyt Fuller
4. Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates
In an article in Time magazine, Black Creativity: On The Cutting Edge (1994), Henry Louis Gates wrote these controversial words to which many scholars during the time and since then have taken issue.
Who was the poet who was shot and killed by a New York City Transit Police in what many say was a case of mistaken identity before he achieved his literary potential? Most of his best works were published posthumously.
1. Hoyt Fuller
2. Ed Bullins
3. Eugene Redmond
4. Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas
Only a few of Henry Dumas’ poems were published in small magazines and journals before his death in 1968. However. Eugene B. Redmond, executor of Dumas’ literary estate, assured that various collections of Dumas’s works were published, including Poetry for My People, in 1970 by Southern Illinois University Press, where Dumas worked before his death.
The Black Arts Movement was the artistic and cultural side of what political movement?
1. Black Like Me
2. Civil Rights Movement
3. Black Lives Matter Movement
4. Black Power Movement
Black Power Movement
Embedded in the artistic works of the Black Arts Movement were the revolutionary perspectives and ideologies of the Black Power Movement.
Serving a sentence of eight years in the Indiana State Prison, who began to write poetry and ultimately joined the ranks of recognized poets of the Black Arts Movement?
1. Etheridge Knight
2. David Henderson
3. Larry Neal
4. Ismael Reed
Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight was arrested in 1969 for robbery and during his sentence began to write poetry and was virtually discovered by publisher Dudley Randall and poet laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks.
The Black Woman, the first major Black feminist anthology, was edited by whom?
1. Gwendolyn Brooks
2. Toni Morrison
3. Alice Walker
4. Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara
The ground-breaking, The Black Woman, published in 1970, was edited by Toni Cade Bambara and featured work by, Nikki Giovanni, Abbey Lincoln, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, Gwen Patton, Alice Walker, and a host of others.
What was the name of the revolutionary political faction that paralleled the Black Arts Movement which served as the cultural/artistic faction?
1. The Black Rangers
2. The Black Panthers
3. The Black Knights
4. The Black Stars
The Black Panthers
The Black Panthers or Black Panther Party was originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the revolutionary political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in 1966.
Who was formerly known as Don L. Lee and became a noted poet, publisher, editor, speaker and educator during the Black Arts Movement and beyond?
1. Harold Cruse
2. Larry Neal
3. Haki Madhubuti
4. Addison Gayle
Haki Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti, founder of Third World Press, became author of over 30 book and one of the world’s best selling authors of poetry and non-fiction, with books in print in excess of 3 million.
Who is the Black woman poet whose first publication, Black Feeling, Black Talk, was a self-published collection, but who rose to be one of the foremost poets of the Black Arts Movement and was more than once on the New York Times best-seller list?
1. Nikki Giovanni
2. Carolyn Rogers
3. Gwendolyn Brooks
4. Mari Evans
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni, born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni in Knoxville, Tennessee, was one of the most recognized revolutionary poetic voices of the 60s and 70s.
Which of these musicians was NOT popularly associated with the Black Arts jazz scene?
1. Thelonious Monk
2. John Coltrane
3. Quincy Jones
4. Archie Shepp
Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones, while around in the 60s and 70s, is not noted for participating in the Black Arts Movement. Instead as a record producer, musician and film producer, Quincy Jones is best known as a composer and record producer for legendary musicians such as Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Celene Dion and Aretha Franklin.
Who was named Poet Laureate of East St. Louis (IL) in 1976, the same year his provocative book, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry was released?
1. Ishmael Reed
2. Eugene Redmond
3. Haki Madhubuti
4. Dudley Randall
Eugene Redmond
Eugene Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, was a prolific writer during the Black Arts Movement and beyond publishing six poetry collections, editing two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight collections by Henry Dumas. Redmond is also known for his numerous contributions to various journals and anthologies.
What is popularly recognized as the time frame of the Black Arts Movement?
1. 1940s-1950s
2. 1960s-1970s
3. 1950s-1960s
4. 1920s-1930s
1960s-1970s
The time period for the cultural and artistic Black Arts Movement is somewhat fluid; however, it is relegated to the corresponding political Black Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
What was the first scholarly journal to promote Black Studies in the university setting?
1. The Black Studies Journal
2. The Black Scholar
3. The Black Collegiate
4. The Black Academy
The Black Scholar
The Black Scholar was established in 1969 by Robert Chrisman and Nathan Hare to promote Black Studies.
What was the title of the multi-genre collection of works featuring the “first wave of Black Arts writers and thinkers?”
1. Black Scholar
2. Black Fire
3. Black Thought
4. Black Rage
Black Fire
Black Fire (1968), edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, continues to stand as the definitive work of the Black Arts Movement.
What scholar is considered the “father of Black Studies” but was dismissed from Howard University after increasing involvement in the Black Power movement? to found with Robert Chrisman, "The Black Scholar", "the first journal of black studies and research in this country."
1. Angela Davis
2. Carolyn Rogers
3. Ed Bullins
4. Nathan Hare
Nathan Hare
Nathan Hare published The Black Anglo Saxons in 1965 and was dismissed from Howard in June, 1967; he went on in 1969
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Here you will learn about the arts and activism of the important African American movement of the 1960s and 70s, which instilled Black pride, Black power and created new cultural institutions.
