The great migration
Subtitle: an American story
By: paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; Phillips Collection; HarperCollins
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York; (Washington, D.C.)
Language: eng
Description: 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.