Twentieth-century poets would continue to draw from the communal Sasa and continue to look use events and attitudes from the past to illuminate the present. In addition, they would continue to use their work to illuminate and criticize the status quo by protesting the societal attitudes and institutions that hindered the Civil Rights movement, a movement that would change the face America . The work of Melvin Tolson and Robert Hayden, published during the forties, fifties and sixties, reflect African American concerns in the context of a larger American culture even more so than their predecessors. The identification of "modernism" as a creative force would combine social responsibility with attention to form to establish a new African American aesthetic.