Social Realism: The African American Social Movement

What did an international movement of art do for the African American citizens that encountered complexities to have their talents acknowledged? Social realism was discovered. This was an universal societal movement that flourished during the time global economic depression. During this time, this was an important and prosperous movement that explored the realities of life +*/for human kind. As known, this movement was the most unsurpassed development for the African American cultures. African American artist, performers, and writers want to their truths exposed adequately about their customs and beliefs in order to dispel the stereotypes. Some of the artist that benefited from this social movement were Langston Hughes, Countee Cullens, Margaret Walker, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Lorraine Hansberry. However, these are just a very minute percentage of the art population. For these artist, Morgan believed that “Social Realism became the vanguard in the African American struggle for equality and racial injustice in the Depression Era in America, and perhaps it has been (476). She also suggests that the way they chose to express themselves:
Put simply, social realist artist struggled to redeem themselves from the seeming peril of ivory tower isolation and an exclusively upper- class system of patronage by forging work that was both about and for poor and working- class people (476).
An African American by the name of Lorraine Hansberry profited greatly from this remarkable crusade that gained her multiple awards for her showcase, “The Raisin in the Sun.” The play write was a mirrored depiction of her childhood that revealed racial tension and injustices from her community along with domestic conflict and financial