Artworks · Jacob Lawrence

In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The trains were packed continually with migrants

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The migrants arrived in great numbers

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Living conditions were better in the North

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

They arrived in great numbers into Chicago, the gateway of the West

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

They also worked in large numbers on the railroad

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

And the migrants kept coming

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Among one of the last groups to leave the South was the Negro professional who was forced to follow his clientele to make a living

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

One of the main forms of social and recreational activities in which the migrants indulged occurred in the church

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

18 x 12" (45.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

In the North the Negro had better educational facilities

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

They were very poor

1940 · Casein tempera on hardboard

12 x 18" (30.5 x 45.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Blind Beggars

1938 · Tempera over graphite on illustration board

20 1/8 × 15 in. (51.1 × 38.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Free Clinic

1937 · Gouache on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory cardboard

76.7 × 81.8 cm (30 1/4 × 32 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago