Post 3 : The Black Arts Movement- Larry Neal

Larry Neal wanted to improve black culture. "The Black Arts Movement" (1968) was influential in defining and describing the role of the arts in the Black Power era. Neal wanted blacks to draw away from conforming to the arts of the white man. He believed that instead of continuing to express black views through Western aesthetic that we should form a "black aesthetic".

Dr.Martin King Jr's assassination definitely played a role in forming some of Neal's views. He wanted blacks to form their own culture altogether as opposed to trying to spawn off the white culture. Neal wanted blacks to stand up for the black community and revolutionize.