Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe
The Migration of the Negro, No. 22
Lawrence, Jacob
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Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe, or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation
Date
1940-1941Description
Jacob Lawrence is most widely known for the Migration of the Negro, an epic narrative series of sixty paintings that he completed in 1941 at the age of twenty-four.
The series, which was painted in bright tempera paints on small hardboard panels — all of which are accompanied by captions — depicts the flight of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North during and after the first World War. The series is a unique blend of sensibilities, part mural painting, part social realism, and part modernist abstraction. full view
Type of Work
PaintingSubject
Imprisonment, Social realism, Rural-urban migration, Painting, American --20th century, Race relations, African Americans in art
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