Washington, DC : Emeryville, CA : Rappahannock Press in association with the Phillips Collection : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Publishers Group West, 1993.
A series of sixty paintings by Jacob Lawrence recreating the movement of millions of African-Americans, in the decades following World War I, from the rural South to the urban North.
Content Note
New Negroes, migration, and cultural exchange / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- A historian's eye : Jacob Lawrence, historical reality, and the Migration series / Lonnie G. Bunch III and Spencer R. Crew -- The Schomburg Collection : a rich resource for Jacob Lawrence / Deborah Willis -- (Un)Locke(ing) Jacob Lawrence's Migration series / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The Migration series -- Edith Gregor Halpert : impresario of Jacob Lawrence's Migration series / Diane Tepfer -- Jacob Lawrence's Migration series : weavings of pictures and texts / Patricia Hills -- Precision and spontaneity : Jacob Lawrence's materials and techniques / Elizabeth Steele and Susana M. Halpine -- Chronology : Jacob Lawrence and the Migration series / Stephen Bennett Phillips.