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Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains

Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains, Jacob Lawrence
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Migration Series No.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains 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.42: To make it difficult for the migrants to leave, they were arrested en masse. They often missed their trains in the Kaleidoscope

Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.5: Migrants were advanced passage on the railroads, paid for by northern industry. Northern industry was to be repaid by the migrants out of their future wages

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.7: The migrant, whose life had been rural and nurtured by the earth, was now moving to urban life dependent on industrial machinery

1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.16: After a lynching the migration quickened

1940 – 1941
Couple, Harlem, James Van Der Zee

Couple, Harlem

James Van Der Zee, 1932
Dusk, Gwendolyn Knight

Dusk

Gwendolyn Knight, 1960
School Studies, Horace Pippin

School Studies

Horace Pippin, 1944
Ripley scroll (Beinecke version, panels 11, 12, 13), George Ripley

Ripley scroll (Beinecke version, panels 11, 12, 13)

George Ripley, 1570
Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities, Jacob Lawrence

Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities

1940 – 1941
Fairy Tale, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Fairy Tale

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1909
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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