The Great Migration
An American Story
First published 1993
About this book
A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
Subjects
African AmericansAfrican Americans in artAmerican PaintingHistoryJuvenile literaturePainting, AmericanRural-urban migration in artDrawing & drawingsHistory - GeneralArt & Art InstructionArtCollections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralTechniques - DrawingArt / Collections, Catalogs, ExhibitionsLawrence, JacobChildren's 9-12 - Art & Art InstructionAfrican american artistsPainters, juvenile literaturePainters, united statesAfrican americans, juvenile literatureAfrican americans, historyDrawing, catalogsMuseum of modern art (new york, n.y.)