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.]; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-  -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans in art -- Juvenile literature.; Rural-urban migration in art -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans in art.; Painting, American.; African Americans -- History.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: 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.