Jul 31, 2014
The New Negro Movement
Founded in 1916 by Hubert Harrison, The New Negro Movement spanned roughly the years 1916-1935 and served as direct response to the developmental setbacks Blacks in America suffered by the hands of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Jim Crow.
The movement was necessarily multi-disciplinary but called essentially upon its artists, and specifically its writers, to craft a universal aesthetic that set the “new negro” in pursuit of “the great possibilities within himself” and each other. [...]
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