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Organization of Black American Culture

Index Organization of Black American Culture

The Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) was conceived during the era of the Civil Rights Movement by Hoyt W. Fuller as a collective of African-American writers, artists, historians, educators, intellectuals, community activists, and others. [1]

25 relations: Abdul Alkalimat, African Americans, AfriCOBRA, Angela Jackson, Black Arts Movement, Carolyn Rodgers, Cecil Brown (writer), Civil rights movement, Haki R. Madhubuti, Hoyt W. Fuller, Jeff Donaldson (artist), Johari Amini, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Negro Digest, Nikki Giovanni, Pan-Africanism, Sam Greenlee, Sonia Sanchez, South Side, Chicago, Sterling D. Plumpp, W. E. B. Du Bois, Wadsworth Jarrell, Wall of Respect, William Walker (muralist).

Abdul Alkalimat

Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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AfriCOBRA

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) is an African American artist collective formed in Chicago in 1968.

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Angela Jackson

Angela Jackson (born July 25, 1951) is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist based in Chicago.

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Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement, Black Aesthetics Movement or BAM is the artistic outgrowth of the Black Power movement that was prominent in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Carolyn Rodgers

Carolyn Marie Rodgers (December 14, 1940 – April 2, 2010) was a Chicago-based writer.

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Cecil Brown (writer)

Cecil Brown (born July 3, 1943) is an African-American writer and educator.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Haki R. Madhubuti

Haki R. Madhubuti (born Don Luther Lee on February 23, 1942, in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States) is an African-American author, educator, and poet, as well as a publisher and operator of black-themed bookstore.

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Hoyt W. Fuller

Hoyt W. Fuller (September 10, 1923 – May 11, 1981) was an American editor, educator, critic, and author during the Black Arts Movement.

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Jeff Donaldson (artist)

Jeff Donaldson (1932 – 2004) was a visual artist whose work helped define the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Johari Amini

Johari Amini was an African American woman who cofounded the Third World Press in 1967.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.

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Negro Digest

The Negro Digest, later renamed Black World, was an African-American magazine founded in November 1942 by John H. Johnson.

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Nikki Giovanni

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.

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Sam Greenlee

Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) was an African-American writer, best known for his controversial novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, which was first published in London by Allison & Busby in March 1969 (having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers), and went on to be chosen as The Sunday Times Book of the Year.

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Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement.

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South Side, Chicago

The South Side is a region of the city of Chicago.

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Sterling D. Plumpp

Sterling Dominic Plumpp (born January 30, 1940) is an American poet, educator, editor, and critic.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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Wadsworth Jarrell

Wadsworth Aikens Jarrell is an African-American painter, sculptor and printmaker.

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Wall of Respect

The Wall of Respect was a mural first painted in 1967 by the Visual Arts Workshop of the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC).

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William Walker (muralist)

William Walker is a notable muralist in Chicago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Black_American_Culture

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