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The great migration : an American story

Title
The great migration : an American story / paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.
Author
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
Publication
New York : Museum of Modern Art ; [Washington, D.C.] : Phillips Collection ; New York : HarperCollins, c1993.

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Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 24 x 29 cm.
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.
Subject
  • Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000 > Juvenile literature
  • African Americans in art > Juvenile literature
  • Rural-urban migration in art > Juvenile literature
Call Number
JFF 95-4384
ISBN
  • 0060230371
  • 006023038X (lib. bdg.)
  • 0060234539 (lit.ed.)
  • 0870701665 (MoMA)
  • 0943044200 (Phillips)
LCCN
93016788 /AC
OCLC
28257690
Author
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000.
Title
The great migration : an American story / paintings by Jacob Lawrence ; with a poem in appreciation by Walter Dean Myers.
Imprint
New York : Museum of Modern Art ; [Washington, D.C.] : Phillips Collection ; New York : HarperCollins, c1993.
Research Call Number
JFF 95-4384
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