The Black Arts Movement proved to be a crucial and much-needed moment in African-American literature to disrupt a past tradition of humble, staid, and "decorous ambassadors" of African-Americans. Americans American novelists have been classified as (Wright 1403). During the movement, a shift occurred in the perspectives and understanding of African American novelists and poets. The conscience of literary scholars seemed to have been awakened as they became aware of their social responsibility and influence in the African-American community. The range of views held by those in the Black Arts Movement varied significantly from the social function of African-American art to a narrower perspective of what it means to be a Black individual and/or writer. Much of the work created during this time was very opinionated and designed to empower and uplift African Americans. The movement has a huge effect and influence on the writers who came in the later part of the ongoing insurrection. The themes, concepts, and social issues that Black Arts Movement artists faced influenced a new generation of writers who extended and related Black aesthetics into more contemporary times. Conscientious novelists now write with the purpose of communicating the definition of blackness and variety of the “Black Experience” in correlation with the movement's writers. Natasha Tretheway's poem “Help 1968” was later influenced by the logic and perspectives of the movement. The artists and works of the Black Arts Movement had a significant impact not only on the American literary world, but on future African Americans and African American writers. The first artist of the Black Arts Movement created a sudden shift within literature, deviating from... middle of paper... community. Works Cited Baraka, Amiri. "The revolutionary theatre". The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry L. Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. Second ed. New York: Norton, 1969. 1960-1963. Print. The Diane Rehm Show." US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. Np, 23 January 2013. Web. 28 March 2014. Wright, Richard. "Blueprint For Negro Writing." The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry L Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay. New York, 1403-10 February 2010. Web, March 28, 2014. Fuller, Hoyt. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Ed. Henry L. Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay Second ed