USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Through a series of paintings, in The Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans who moved to the North in search for a better life. Lawrence’s parents were among those who migrated between 1916-1919, considered the first wave of the migration.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Migration Series, originally titled The Migration of the Negro, is a group of paintings by African-American painter Jacob Lawrence which depicts the migration of African Americans to the northern United States from the South that began in the 1910s. It was published in 1941 and funded by the WPA.

Detailed explanation-3: -As a child of the Great Migration, Jacob Lawrence was well placed to undertake such a mammoth task in detailing the journey from the rural South that over six million African Americans undertook from 1916 onwards to supply a workforce for the growing industries of North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of art known as the Migration Series.