1. Black Arts Movement Group 10

5. One major contributor to The Black Arts Movement, Stockley Carmichael, stated that the emergence of this movement was an outcry to the injustice done to black people and the death of Malcolm X........... (link) Other means for rebellion were aimed at social reform. In Black Awakening in Capitalist America, author Robert Allen states social programs such as retraining programs were frequently unrealistic in terms of the number of jobs that were actually available. The programs that were instituted did not accommodate those at the bottom of the economic ladder. Many women who were in these social programs felt that they were being trained for unemployment. Such conditions as these of oppression led to the formation or the beginning of Black America as a separate entity of the American society.