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Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north is a Harlem Renaissance Tempera and Hardboard Painting created by Jacob Lawrence from 1940 to 1941. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. 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.30: In every southern home people met to decide whether or not to go north in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.47: As the migrant population grew, good housing became scarce. Workers were forced to live in overcrowded and dilapidated tenement houses

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.15: There were lynchings

1940 – 1941
Reverie, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Reverie

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, 1930
Black Belt, Archibald Motley

Black Belt

Archibald Motley, 1934
Power of the Caves, Nicholas Roerich

Power of the Caves

Nicholas Roerich, 1925
Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis

1940 – 1941
Poem Object, André Breton

Poem Object

André Breton, 1941
Woman in an Armchair, Pablo Picasso

Woman in an Armchair

Pablo Picasso, 1941
Girl with a rose, Lê Phổ

Girl with a rose

Lê Phổ, 1941

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