Man On The Move - Race Relations In Black America

The history of race relations and the civil rights movement in the U.S., including their effect on the arts and the economy in the 1960s and early 1970s. Betty Blayton Taylor, Black artist-painter and activist in her New York City studio. Scenes of Watts, a Black suburb of Los Angeles, California. Sign reads Watts Writers Theatre. Scenes of local Black actors in a play that deals with slavery. Image of LeRoi Jones, an African-American that was one of the major forces in the Black Arts movement in the 1960s. LeRoi would later change his name to Amiri Baraka after converting to Islam.