Jacob Lawrence

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by Elizabeth Hutton Turner,

Introduction by Henry Louis Gates

Publishers Group West

Due/Published August 1994, 174 pages, paper

ISBN 0963612913

This volume reproduces Lawrence's epic, sixty-panel series of paintings depicting the post-World War I migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. A major contribution to African-American history, the book features essays by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Lonnie G. Bunch III, Spencer R. Crew, Deborah Willis, Diane Tepfer, and other distinguished scholars and historians.