USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. More than 75 years ago, a young artist named Jacob Lawrence set to work on an ambitious 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the flight of over a million African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North following the outbreak of World War I.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -An exhibition of The Migration Series (1940–41) by American artist Jacob Lawrence (b. 1917) brings together the entire, sixty-panel work for the first time in more than twenty years.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.