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Migration Series No.25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.26: And people all over the South continued to discuss this great movement
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.28: The labor agent sent south by northern industry was a familiar presence in the Black communities
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.2: The war had caused a labor shortage in northern industry. Citizens of foreign countries were returning to their native lands
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
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.31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.32: The railroad stations in the South were crowded with northbound travelers
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.34: The Black press urged the people to leave the South
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.36: Migrants arrived in Chicago, the gateway to the West
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.38: They also worked on the railroads
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.40: The migrants arrived in great numbers
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.41: The South was desperate to keep its cheap labor. Northern labor agents were jailed or forced to operate in secrecy
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, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.43: In a few sections of the South leaders of both Black and White communities met to discuss ways of making the South a good place to live
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.44: But living conditions were better in the North
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.45: The migrants arrived in Pittsburgh, one of the great industrial centers of the North
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.46: Industries boarded their workers in unhealthy quarters. Labor camps were numerous
Jacob Lawrence, 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, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.48: Housing was a serious problem
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.49: They found discrimination in the North. It was a different kind
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.4: All other sources of labor having been exhausted, the migrants were the last resource
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.50: Race riots were numerous. White workers were hostile toward the migrant who had been hired to break strikes
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.51: African Americans seeking to find better housing attempted to move into new areas. This resulted in the bombing of their new homes
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.52: One of the most violent race riots occurred in East St. Louis
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.53: African Americans, long-time residents of northern cities, met the migrants with aloofness and disdain
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.54: For the migrants, the church was the center of life
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.55: The migrants, having moved suddenly into a crowded and unhealthy environment, soon contracted tuberculosis. The death rate rose
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.56: The African American professionals were forced to follow their clients in order to make a living
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.57: The female workers were the last to arrive north
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.58: In the North the African American had more educational opportunities
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.59: In the North they had the freedom to vote
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
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, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.60: And the migrants kept coming
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.6: The trains were crowded with migrants
Jacob Lawrence, 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, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.8: Some left because of promises of work in the North. Others left because their farms had been devastated by floods
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806
Natal Where Art School Is
John Ndevasia Muafangejo, 1974
No More Games
Benny Andrews, 1970
Olympia in War Time: Royal Army Clothing Depot
Clare Atwood, 1918
One Day I Happened to See a Ruler
Ibrahim El-Salahi, 2008
Patriotic Indian
Fritz Scholder, 1975
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