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Harlem Renaissance , Page 2
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Migration Series No.17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of the planter
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.18: The migration gained in momentum
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.19: There had always been discrimination
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.20: In many of the communities the Black press was read with great interest. It encouraged the movement
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.22: Migrants left. They did not feel safe. It was not wise to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.23: The migration spread
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Migration Series No.24: Their children were forced to work in the fields. They could not go to school
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
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.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.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.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.60: And the migrants kept coming
Jacob Lawrence, 1940 – 1941
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, Pardons the Sentry
Horace Pippin, 1942
Homesteaders
William H. Johnson, 1942
Photographers from the Negro press
Gordon Parks, 1942
Mr. Prejudice
Horace Pippin, 1943
Sunday Morning Breakfast
Horace Pippin, 1943
Headlines
Charles White, 1944
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