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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 [[strikethrough]] ect [[/strikethrough]] 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 30s and 40s, names like Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, Vertis Hayes, the famous Horace Pippin and countless others. Since the end of World War II the number of Afro-American artists has greatly increased and a considerable number have earned international reputations.  We can only mention a few the number is so great.

13. If presented together in one grouping, the several mural panels prepared by Vertis Hayes, Charles White, Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, William E. Scott and Charles Alston, the complete history of Black people