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7. The 1920's produced the New Negro Movement, sometimes referred to as the Negro Renaissance or the Harlem Renaissance since Harlem was its mecca.  Afro-American artists, writers, poets, and scholars joined the musicians in documenting the creative potential of Black America.

8. That early intellectual leadership came from such great Afro-American's as Howard University's Alain Locke, W.E.B. DuBois, Carter G. Woodson, Franklin Frazier, James Porter who was a fine painter as well and many others.  The spirit of this first wave of cultural racialism was concisely stated by the poet Langston Hughes: "We younger Negro artists intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame."

9. Aaron Douglas was considered the official mural painter of the "Harlem Renaissance."  Archibald Motley helped to raise the level of Negro Portraiture to a respectable standard.  Richmond Barthe' was sculptor of the day.

10. From 1865 to 1890 is known as the apprenticeship period in the development of the Black arts and crafts, and from 1890 to 1914 the journeyman period.

11. From 1900 to 1925, Blacks generally had to make their own opportunities in an effort to study the fine arts, often they were forced to beg for a place to exhibit their work, in such places as Y.M.C.A. buildings, churches, Black public schools and etc.

12. Another generation of Black artists confronted the lean years of the Depression.  The Federal Works Projects made available better opportunities for some of the best known Afro-American artists of today who emerged during the 30's and 40's, names like Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Romare Bearden, 

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