Jacob Lawrence

The Migration Series, Panel no. 1: During World War I there was a great migration north by southern African Americans.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 25: They left their homes. Soon some communities were left almost empty.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 3: From every southern town migrants left by the hundreds to travel north.

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The Migration Series, Panel 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.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 59: In the North they had the freedom to vote.

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

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 9: They left because the boll weevil had ravaged the cotton crop.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 11: Food had doubled in price because of the war.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 13: The crops were left to dry and rot. There was no one to tend them.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 15: There were lynchings.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 17: Tenant farmers received harsh treatment at the hands of planters.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 19: There had always been discrimination.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 21: Families arrived at the station very early. They did not wish to miss their trains north.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 23: The migration spread.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 27: Many men stayed behind until they could take their families north with them.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 29: The labor agent recruited unsuspecting laborers as strike breakers for northern industries.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 31: The migrants found improved housing when they arrived north.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 33: Letters from relatives in the North told of the better life there.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 35: They left the South in great numbers. They arrived in the North in great numbers.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 37: Many migrants found work in the steel industry.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 39: Railroad platforms were piled high with luggage.

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The Migration Series, Panel no. 41: The South was desperate to keep its cheap labor. Northern labor agents were jailed or forced to operate in secrecy.

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The Migration Series, Panel 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.

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