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. Black models presenting their portfolio to Betty Foray, Director of the Black Beauty Modeling Agency in New York City. The office of the magazine Essence. Marilyn Holmes at her fashion house talking about the Black Power economic revolution of Black Americans. Faith Ringgold, Black artist and author, in her Harlem, New York studio. Scenes of an artist at work. Exterior scenes of the Boston Museum. Paintings, works of art and sculptures by African-American artist at the Boston Museum. 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.