Discuss the quest for racial equality and its proponents in the arts

What will be an ideal response?

The consequences of slavery were confronted head on during the civil rights era. Separation of the races by segregated housing, inferior schools, and exclusion from voting and equal employment were only a few of the inequities suffered by African-Americans in the post-emancipation United States. It was to these issues and to the more general problem of racism that many African-Americans addressed themselves after World War I. Much of this fight took place in the legal system and through political messages, led by figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X. However, artists also played a major role in the quest for racial equality.
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance—Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, among others—captured the African-American experience through the use of slang dialect, the rhythms of jazz and blues, the musical qualities of the African oral tradition, as well as by expressing the anger of a people who had known physical punishment and repeated injustice at the hands of whites.