Maya Angelou And The Black Arts Movement

Maya Angelou: Her Works and Additions to the “Characteristics” of BAM The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a collection of politically persuaded black artists, craftsmen, producers, performers, and scholars who developed in the wake of the Black Arts Movement. Maya Angelou played a huge role in this movement with her literature and many more inspirational influences. Maya Angelou's impact as an artist amid the Black Arts Movement and complexities her impact to Amiri Baraka, the man who began the BAM with his radical lyric "Black Art”, helped her become one of the greatest female writers during the BAM and In the black community and history as a whole. Maya Angelou was born, Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri.