Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series Nicole Galland engrossing tale of rural Kentucky

engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series Nicole Galland engrossing tale of rural KentuckyLawrence's landmark series on African American migration in context In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915 16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The result was an