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Summary Of Jacob Lawerence's Migration Series

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Jacob Lawerence’s “Migration Series” encapsulates the black perspective of a massive migration in the early to mid 1900s. The movement of African Americans moving from the rural South to cities located in the North and West searching for opportunities and equality. It was a time of reinvention, through his multiple panel series, Lawerence showcases this movement between worlds. Through his panels Lawerence tells a story, a story of movement and change, but also one of hardship, violence, and discrimination. I picked the last panel of the Migration Series, No. 60, captioned, “ And the migrants kept coming.” This panel resembles the first in the aspects of the setting of the train station, but represents a sense of continuation. They all are

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