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Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the The Phillips Collection in the United States. The image is © Estate of Jacob Lawrence / ARS, New York, and used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Political Work. SourceSee Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north, Jacob Lawrence

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Migration Series No.31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north

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Migration Series No.37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry, Jacob Lawrence

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