Sam Greenlee, whose movie “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” is a Cult Classic

Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee in 1973. His movie, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” based on his book by the same name, became a classic in the black nationalist movement.

Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee of Chicago

The Black Arts: Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee, whose movie “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” became a cult classic, in 1973. The movie is based on his book by the same name, which became a classic in the black nationalist movement. May he rest in peace.

Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, Black Nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement.

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