Around the time I was born, many African-Americans from the South left home and traveled to cities in the North in search of a better life.
An edition of The Great Migration: An American Story
(1993)
The great migration
an American story
by Jacob Lawrence, Gary Garrels, Jodi Hauptman, and Jordan Kantor
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Summary, A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
Publish Date
1993
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art,
Phillips Collection,
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Drawing from the Modern (3 Volumes)
October 15, 2006, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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0870701665 9780870701665
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The Great Migration: An American Story
October 1999, Tandem Library
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in English
0785776281 9780785776284
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The Great Migration
September 1995, Perfection Learning Prebound
Unknown Binding
0780753488 9780780753488
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The Great Migration: An American Story
October 30, 1995, HarperTrophy
in English
0064434281 9780064434287
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The Great Migration: An American Story
October 30, 1995, HarperTrophy
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The great migration: an American story
1993, Museum of Modern Art, Phillips Collection, HarperCollins
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0060230371 9780060230371
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1993, Museum of Modern Art, Phillips Collection, HarperCollins
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A series of paintings chronicles the journey of African Americans who, like the artist's family, left the rural South in the early twentieth century to find a better life in the industrial North.
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