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Washington· États-Unis· 1500 – 2015· 1 603 œuvres
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Œuvres (30)

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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.

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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.

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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

Jacob Lawrence

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.

Jacob Lawrence

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.

Jacob Lawrence
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