1. THE GREAT MIGRATION
Jacob Lawrence
Presentation from people.ucls.uchicago.edu/~jdrogos/.../lawrenceslide%20copy.ppt

2. What are the reasons
African Americans left
the South?

8. How did African Americans
travel to the North?
Under what circumstances
were they traveling?

13. What did African
Americans hope to find
in the North?
What realities did they
face upon arrival?

27. Source: http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/art/migration_series.html

28. Lawrence on his art
I don't think in terms of history about that
series. I think in terms of contemporary life. It was
such a part of me that I didn't think of something
outside. It was like I was doing a portrait of
something. If it was a portrait, it was a portrait of
myself, a portrait of my family, a portrait of my
peers.
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Source: http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/art/migration_series.html