The Great Migration
An American Story
by Jacob Lawrence, Gary Garrels, Jodi Hauptman, Jordan Kantor · 1993
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A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
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